Playboy Interview: Dan Rather

Playboy Interview: Dan RatherNo sooner did Dan Rather take over the most coveted job in television news two and a half years ago--anchor man of the "CBS Evening News"--than the critics began to ask whether he could possibly survive in the job.Ratings for the program, perennially the leader, dropped precipitously. Within CBS News, the panic became almost palpable. Inside and outside CBS, doubters had a field day.Why had CBS let Walter Cronkite go? Wasn't Rather too grim and intense as a...