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" I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens. "
Walter Cronkite
Informed
Need
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" There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize. "
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" Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer. "
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" The civil rights fight was a very important fight. "
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" I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues. "
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" I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since. "
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Day
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" Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience. "
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Come
Along
" Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason. "
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Constitution
Comfort
" 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. "
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" I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage. "
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Want
Question
" The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story. "
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Best
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" Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was. "
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Day
Doing
" There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering. "
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Story
Fire
Brooklyn
" 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
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Why
You
Newspaper
" As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue. "
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Facts
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" I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get. "
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Pretty
Never
Decent
" I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be. "
Walter Cronkite
Decisions
Job
Nice
" History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past. "
Walter Cronkite
Reading
Past
History
" 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
Challenge
" We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart. "
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Democracy
Nation
Future
" I think that our comfort is in our history. "
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History
I Think
Our
" I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely. "
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Say
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" In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people. "
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American
People
Right
" We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders. "
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Enough
Act
Well
" Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy. "
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Dan
Just
" The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends and getting along well... But it is not something that you dwelled on. At least, I did not. "
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Time
Thought
Friends
" 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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Best
Think
Success
" Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised. "
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Go
Grandfather
Growing
" I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot. "
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