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Trusting Walter Cronkite

We know no one else will ever be able to say "And that's the way it is." Can anyone emulate his truth-telling?
Joan Walsh

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  • Friday, July 17, 2009 10:26 PM

    preemptive

    lest anyone make any of these claims, here's my prerebuttal:

    1)no, Rather on Maddow doesn't demonstrate he's desperate

    2) yes, typewritergate was a bogus scandal

    3) no, Cronkite was not a traitor for losing hope on Vietnam

    4) "a true journalist must be liberal," to paraphrase his statement, means that reporters whose allegiance is to the people shame reporters who uphold and defend the establishment

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