A new film starring Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford explores 60 Minutes’ notorious piece on George W. Bush’s record in the Air National Guard, and the subsequent fall of Rather. Shop ▾ It was the great Henry David Thoreau who once said, “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” And it’s the Thoreauian tenets of self-reliance—the pursuit of unvarnished truth and resistance to institutional authority—that motivates many in the journalism profession. If James Vanderbilt’s new film Truth is to be believed, this quest led 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes and veteran CBS News anchor Dan Rather to air the segment “For the Record,” which questioned then-President George W....
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