The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print. Walter Cronkite More Quotes by Walter Cronkite More Quotes From Walter Cronkite I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country. Walter Cronkite class country school 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 covers police stations, covers county courts, brought up that way, has to have a degree of humanity that people who do not have that exposure don't have, and some people interpret that to be liberal. It's not a liberal, it's humanitarian and that's a vastly different thing. Walter Cronkite police humanity people For nearly five decades the World Federalists have worked to promote a strengthened UN and more effective institutions of global governance. I offer my personal endorsement. Now a great opportunity has opened for the realization of the dreams of the UN's founders. Walter Cronkite realization dream opportunity It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order. Walter Cronkite world-government yield order I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years. Walter Cronkite doctors play years There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene. Walter Cronkite ties heart blood I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek. Walter Cronkite kissing men thinking I think Omaha Beach was Omaha Beach, we didn't know about those names then, of course. All I knew was Omaha Beach. I didn't even know how extensive the landings were. Walter Cronkite top-news Journalism is what we need to make democracy work. Walter Cronkite need journalism democracy work I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along. Walter Cronkite mistake lost remember war We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism. Walter Cronkite daily journalism news politics I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. Walter Cronkite person game success life I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just was so awe-inspiring to actually be able to see the thing through the television that was a miracle in itself. Walter Cronkite see moon time television The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings. Walter Cronkite fight evening news failure I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist. Walter Cronkite leftist necessarily liberal consider It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year. Walter Cronkite making year you hard Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability. Walter Cronkite fight women attitude men Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it. Walter Cronkite elephant great honesty time A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism. Walter Cronkite try good journalism politics The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children. Walter Cronkite generation opportunity death children
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