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Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather Jr. (born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News.

He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel AXS TV.

Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9, 1981, to March 9, 2005.

He also contributed to CBS's 60 Minutes.

Rather became embroiled in controversy about a disputed news report involving President George W.

Bush's Vietnam-era service in the National Guard and subsequently left CBS Evening News in 2005, and he left the network altogether after 43 years in 2006.

The news media or news industry are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.

These include print media (newspapers, newsmagazines), broadcast news (radio and television), and more recently the Internet (online newspapers, news blogs, etc).

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree.

The word applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles.

Journalistic media include: print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels.

Politics (from Greek Politiká: Politika, definition "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions applying to all members of each group.

More narrowly, it refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance — organized control over a human community, particularly a state.

Furthermore, politics is the study or practice of the distribution of power and resources within a given community (this is usually a hierarchically organized population) as well as the interrelationship(s) between communities.

News is information about current events.

Journalists provide news through many different media, based on word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, and also on their own testimony, as witnesses of relevant events.