Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years. During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. He reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; the Dawson's Field hijackings; Watergate; the Iran Hostage...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth4 November 1916
CitySaint Joseph, MO
CountryUnited States of America
The very first day we were there, ... I started getting notes in my box to call this Bernard Shaw.
The earliest admonition we had about the computer was to quit using the phrase electric brain. The folks in Philadelphia tried to convince us that the Univac didn't have a brain, and that whatever we fed into it would determine what we got out of it.
I don't think any of us saw the long shadow in the newsroom at all.
gave the impression of playing a role more than simply trying to deliver the news to the audience.
It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate,
They're going to have to eat their words. Some of the things I've seen her do on Today when there's breaking news, I thought she's done a fine job. ... Her own journalistic instincts come to the fore.
To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.
The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
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.