Walter Cronkite Quotes
Top 54 wise famous quotes and sayings by Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.
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.
The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.
We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.
Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past,
It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.
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.
Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.
The ruling class is the rich ... And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.
The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.
The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.
I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.
Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.
Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.
The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.
The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.
I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.