#al

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'. ↗

— Dan Rather

#begins #believes #called #dream #leads

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it. ↗

— Dan Rather

#arab #busy #calendar #driving #japan

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs. ↗

— Dan Rather

#important roles #journalists #most #our #roles

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces. ↗

— Dan Rather

#cave #down #forces #gets #great

Only votes talk, everything else walks. ↗

— Dan Rather

#everything #only #talk #votes #walks

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer. ↗

— Dan Rather

#computer #err #foul #human #really

As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere. ↗

— Dan Rather

#i #long #reporting #somewhere #want

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new. ↗

— Dan Rather

#access #bargaining #been #campaigns #candidates

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place. ↗

— Dan Rather

#cannot #first #forget #had #history

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. ↗

— Dan Rather

#government #journalists #opinion #opinion polls #polls