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Saturday, July 18, 2009 12:00 AM

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 07:44 AM

    a video clip you won't see on CBS or hear on NPR

    (blogger pourmecoffee found this video clip, below)
    http://twitter.com/pourmecoffee/status/2699391218
    http://pourmecoffee.posterous.com/i-regret-that-in-our-attempt-to-establish-som

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    Here's a video clip of Walter Cronkite in 1996.

    It's only 20 seconds long, and that was enough time to say everything that needed to be said:

    http://www.newseum.org/news/news.aspx?item=nh_CRON090714_2

    “I regret that in our attempt to establish some standards we didn’t make them stick.

    We couldn’t find a way to pass them on to another generation.”

    - - Walter Cronkite, 1996

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