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Rather Says He Has More Editorial Freedom Now Than Ever Before

3 April 2009 2:34 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news

Dan Rather says that many of the topics he now focuses on for his weekly Dan Rather Reports documentaries for the HDNet channel never see the light of day on the broadcast networks. For example, he is currently working on a program that examines "cap and trade," a program that rewards companies for reducing pollution below a certain level with credits that they can sell to companies that produce pollution above that level. "Frankly, I came into this not knowing what cap-and-trade was," Rather told the San Francisco Chronicle, let alone why people should "care about it." Wayne Nelson, executive producer of Dan Rather Reports, who has worked with Rather for 25 years, told the newspaper, "If I went to the networks and said I wanted to do an hour on cap-and-trade or go to Iceland, they'd laugh. ... With this network, the sky is the limit."

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Rather Hosts Documentary On Afghanistan

6 January 2009 1:31 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news

His audience, his budget and his salary may only be a fraction of what they once were, but Dan Rather is doing something that no major network news personality has yet done -- devoting an entire one-hour program to the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and the resurgence of the Taliban. During the hour, which launches the new season of Dan Rather Reports on HDNet, General David McKiernan, the U.S. Commander in Afghanistan, tells Rather about his appeal for more troops to fight the Taliban, while a "grunt" in the field remarks that "the Taliban is a way of life here, and it's hard to fight that."

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