As a boy, Dan Rather listened to the World War II radio broadcasts of Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) news reporter Edward R. Murrow, who vividly described bombings of London and who, in 1954, effectively denounced anti-Communist zealot Senator Joseph McCarthy. Perhaps influenced by Murrow, Rather resembled him in many ways. Both were dedicated to the primacy and integrity of news. Both sometimes courted danger, as when Rather entered Afghanistan in 1980, shortly after the Soviet invasion.... więcej

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