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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Walter Cronkite

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Walter Cronkite
Age: 92 †
Born: 1916
Born: November 4
Died: 2009
Died: July 17
Journalist
News Presenter
Saint Joseph
Missouri
Walter Leland Cronkite
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Walter Leland Cronkite
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So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.
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Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
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To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.
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We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.
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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.
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Be kind to an old man.
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The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.
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Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
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I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.
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Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.
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Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
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When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.
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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.
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People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.
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Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.
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