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" With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story. "
Walter Cronkite
Just
Story
News
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" Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well. "
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More
Job
" It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role. "
Walter Cronkite
Role
Hard
Take
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
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Daily
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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. "
Walter Cronkite
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Day
Doing
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Democracy
Nation
Future
" I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind. "
Walter Cronkite
Mind
I Think
Liberal
" The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings. "
Walter Cronkite
Evening
Fight
Television
" It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. "
Walter Cronkite
Peace
Conflict
Government
" It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space. "
Walter Cronkite
Understand
Us
Hard
" Journalism is what we need to make democracy work. "
Walter Cronkite
Need
Democracy
Journalism
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Internet
Interesting
Challenge
" I think people make way too much of ratings. "
Walter Cronkite
Too
Too Much
Way
" I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style. "
Walter Cronkite
Just
Interviews
Believe
" The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon. "
Walter Cronkite
Moon
History
Man
" Anchormen shouldn't cry. "
Walter Cronkite
Cry
" We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons. "
Walter Cronkite
Opportunity
Justice
Build
" A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest. "
Walter Cronkite
History
Questions
Power
" We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me. "
Walter Cronkite
More
More And More
Towns
" It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year. "
Walter Cronkite
Year
Elitist
Hard
" I think that our comfort is in our history. "
Walter Cronkite
History
I Think
Our
" There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. "
Walter Cronkite
Little
Either
Free
" I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated. "
Walter Cronkite
Evening
Think
Great
" The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good. "
Walter Cronkite
Great
My Life
Sadness
" I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am. "
Walter Cronkite
Taking
Valid
Stand
" Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact. "
Walter Cronkite
Impact
Beyond
Subject
" Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened. "
Walter Cronkite
Show
Hold
Job
" I'm one of the best condensers in the business. "
Walter Cronkite
Best
Business
" On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way. "
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Television
Road
Prejudice
" All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. "
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Politics
My Life
Through
" Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer. "
Walter Cronkite
His
Famous
Own