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Journalism Quotes by Walter Cronkite
- If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of…
- The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.
- As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way…
- Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium,…
- 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.
- And that's the way it is.
- There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
- Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
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