Walter Cronkite Quotes

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Walter Cronkite

Profession : Journalist

Birth : November 4, 1916

I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.

Walter Cronkite

I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.

Walter Cronkite

The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.

Walter Cronkite

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

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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

The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.

Walter Cronkite

We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.

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 and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.

Walter Cronkite

I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage.

Walter Cronkite

A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.

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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.

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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.

Walter Cronkite