Photo: #Dan Rather has been out of the anchor's chair at CBS News for just over a year now. File photo from 2001.
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Dan Rather has been out of the anchor's chair at CBS News for just over a year now. File photo from 2001. (Getty Images/Stan Honda)

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Is there a future for network T.V. news?

Broadcast: Midday, 03/14/2006, 12:06 p.m.

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Former CBS News Anchor Dan Rather still believes there's an audience for straightforward news broadcasts that focus on serious national and international stories, but he worries that "what's lacking is the will to try it."

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