The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1977. BX0 - A 3rd printing hardcover book SIGNED by Dan Rather and Mickey Herskowitz and inscribed to previous owner on the half-title page in very good condition in good dust jacket. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, some tears soiled patches on the edges and corners, some scattered stains, wrnikled, tanning and light shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, some stains on the page edges, light tanning and shelf wear. Dan Rather offers his own insightful views on such vital subjects as checkbook journalism, the demands made by government officials that reporters expose their sources, as exemplified by the Daniel Schorr case, and the dangers posed by the celebrity syndrome when the news business becomes show business. 9.5"x6.5", 320 pages. Satisfaction Guranteed. Dan Irvin Rather Jr. is an American journalist. Rather began his career in Texas and was on the scene of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas in 1963. His reporting elevated his position in CBS News, where he was White House correspondent beginning in 1964. He served as foreign correspondent in London and Vietnam over the next two years before returning to the White House correspondent position, covering the presidency of Richard Nixon, including his trip to China, Watergate scandal and resignation. When Walter Cronkite retired in 1981, Rather was promoted to news anchor for the CBS Evening News, a role he occupied for 24 years. Along with Peter Jennings at ABC News and Tom Brokaw at NBC News, he was one of the "Big Three" nightly news anchors in the U.S. from the 1980s through the early 2000s. He also frequently contributed to CBS's weekly news magazine 60 Minutes. Within a year of Brokaw's retirement and Jennings's death, he left the anchor desk in 2005 following a controversy in which he presented unauthenticated documents in a news report on President George W. Bush's Vietnam War-era service in the National Guard. He continued to work with CBS until 2006. On the cable channel AXS TV (then called HDNet), Rather hosted Dan Rather Reports, a 60 Minutes-style investigative news program, from 2006 to 2013. He also hosts several other projects for AXS TV, including Dan Rather Presents, which does in-depth reporting on broad topics such as mental health care or adoption, and The Big Interview with Dan Rather, where he conducts long-form interviews with musicians and other entertainers. In January 2018, he began hosting an online newscast called The News with Dan Rather on The Young Turks' YouTube channel.. Signed by Author. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.