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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhere have you gone, Walter Cronkite?
Our nation turns its 24-7 cable news oversaturated eyes to you...
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Where have you gone, Walter Cronkite? (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Apr 2013
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Gone and replaced by graduates of the Ted Baxter Institute of Journalism and Garble.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Apr 2013
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justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)1. I'm feeling pretty good about Pete Williams at the moment
He's no Uncle Walter but he's the one that kept trying to pull people back and explain what his sources were telling him, which was conflicting in and of itself. However, NBC didn't jump on the bandwagon at all.
SirRevolutionary
(579 posts)2. Breaking News from CNN....
Walter Cronkite's left and gone away, hey hey hey. No wait, he's not. Wait hold on, he's still here. No....
Tommy_Carcetti
(44,446 posts)3. Well played, sir.
Well played.
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)4. I'd settle for the Bernard King days of CNN.
randome
(34,845 posts)5. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are the Walter Cronkites of our age.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)6. Gone and replaced by graduates of the Ted Baxter Institute of Journalism and Garble.
