I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.' — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists.… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks'… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting.… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible.… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible.… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents…Anybody who has to live with the people, who… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
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. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
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. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way.… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
I grew my mustache when I was nineteen in order to look older. I never shaved it off even though it overran its usefulness… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
