Dan Rather shares his thoughts on the news business and the Middle East

Dan Rather
Former CBS News Anchor Dan Rather now has a weekly show on the cable and satellite network HDNet. File photo from 2001.
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Dan Rather, who was the face of CBS News for a quarter century, was in Minnesota recently to talk about one of the many stories he covered during his long tenure in the anchor chair: the situation in the Middle East. Rather spoke April 19 at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park.

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