[dead]

Cronkite was patient zero for the bias virus infecting the journalistic body politic.

[kcvl]

" after Cronkite had belatedly turned against LBJ’s Vietnam War, he met privately with Robert Kennedy. “You must announce your intention to run against Johnson, to show people there will be a way out of this terrible war,” he said in Kennedy’s Senate office. Soon afterward, Cronkite got an exclusive interview in which Kennedy left the door open for a possible run—the very candidacy that the anchor had urged him to undertake. (Kennedy announced three days later.)"

[americas.best.days...]

An old boyfriend of mine grew up on Marthas Vineyard and delivered groceries to Cronkite regularly and said he was
a nasty prick,regularly.

[mikrofon]

Herr Krankheit was definitely archetypical for his successors in the “profession”...