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Celebrating Cronkite while ignoring what he did

Cronkite's best moment was when he did exactly that which today's journalists insist they must never do.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Saturday, July 18, 2009 05:39 AM

    indeed

    You could probably add I.F. Stone to that list, as well.

    Great men are fated to have mediocre eulogizers.

    And that's the way it is.

    RIP WC

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