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" I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. "
Walter Cronkite
Managing
Analyst
Editor
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" I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report. "
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" I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake. "
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" I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases. "
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" I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more. "
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" I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am. "
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" I think people make way too much of ratings. "
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" When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides. "
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" I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens. "
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" America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. "
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" I'm one of the best condensers in the business. "
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" If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy. "
Walter Cronkite
Said
They Say
Say
" We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism. "
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Daily
Politics
" Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough. "
Walter Cronkite
News
Every Day
Day
" I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation. "
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" The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story. "
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Landing
Best
Moon
" A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am. "
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Me
I Am
Facts
" Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial. "
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Protection
Open
Fair
" I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that. "
Walter Cronkite
Moving
Competition
Think
" For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous. "
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You
Newspaper
" I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy. "
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Democracy
Knowledge
" When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed. "
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" All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. "
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Through
" I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues. "
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Never
Individual
" Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy. "
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" There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait. "
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Fishing
Trips
Never
" Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions. "
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Internet
Interesting
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" Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability. "
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Men
Acceptance
Attitude
" I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist. "
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Leftist
Consider
" I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong. "
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