Journalism Quotes by Walter Cronkite

I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

— Walter Cronkite

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

— Walter Cronkite

News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.

— Walter Cronkite

We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.

— Walter Cronkite

In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

— Walter Cronkite

I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

— Walter Cronkite

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

— Walter Cronkite

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

— Walter Cronkite

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

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

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

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.

— Walter Cronkite

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

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

— Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

— Walter Cronkite

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

For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible.…

— Walter Cronkite

In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length…

— Walter Cronkite

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

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

Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to…

— Walter Cronkite

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And…

— Walter Cronkite

I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably…

— Walter Cronkite

I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our…

— Walter Cronkite

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

“I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case…

— Walter Cronkite

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

I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.

— Walter Cronkite

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

— Walter Cronkite

When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after…

— Walter Cronkite

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem…

— Walter Cronkite

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping…

— Walter Cronkite

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

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

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the…

— Walter Cronkite

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

I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be…

— Walter Cronkite

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no…

— Walter Cronkite

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

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

— Walter Cronkite