A UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS student hopped a flight from Austin to NYC and wound up seated next to Dan Rather, the longtime network news anchor for CBS."It's not every day that a 22-year-old journalism student is presented with the occasion to bounce questions off of the first network reporter to tell America the news of President John F. Kennedy's assassination," student Caroline Page wrote in the Daily Texan.
Unlike the other stories I post here that are controversial, this is just a decent story about a random run-in with a broadcast legend. Give it a read.
3 comments:
This is a great story. What a coincidence to be a journalism student sitting next to Dan Rather! I also read the comments and I wonder if half the kids that commented would have had the balls to really ask Dan Rather what they posted. Probably not!
That is so cool. To be able to have that opportunity!? I ignored the comments that the people wrote though, they really didn't appreciate the story for what it is.
wow.. the comments. Anyway. Responding to the comments that people left on the Daily Texan website. Why should she get out of journalism? It was a story based on relevance and unusualness, it was a story about how an aspiring journalist met one of (if not the) most famous broadcast journalists in history. It wasn't a piece on Dan Rather's history and his political mishaps. So what if she got lucky, leave her alone. It was good work.
kevin. m.
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