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Failed coup: Dan Rather Reports does little to revolutionize television news.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-FEB-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Failed coup: Dan Rather Reports does little to revolutionize television news.(Hollywood, TX: CHRISTOPHER KELLY ON OUR STATE OF ENTERTAINMENT)

Article Excerpt
Talk about strange bedfellows: On the one side there was Dan Rather, the septuagenarian newsman whose 44-year career at CBS ended in ignominy after the airing of an improperly vetted 60 Minutes report about President George W. Bush's military service. On the other side there was Mark Cuban, the Broadcast.com founder and Dallas Mavericks owner who is forever promising to reinvent the entire entertainment-media industrial complex. Last July these two unabashedly odd ducks announced that they were teaming up to launch a newsmagazine show on Cuban's HDNet cable channel. For Cuban, it was a bid to lend respectability to his fledgling network, which is best known for programs like World Extreme Cagefighting and Bikini Destinations (a travel show hosted by, um, a woman in a bikini). For the Wharton-born Rather, the stakes were even greater: a chance to prove that his integrity and his ambition were still intact; a chance to show the world that he wasn't about to fade quietly into the night. Both men promised that Dan Rather Reports...

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