[haywoodwebb]

". . .The newsman said he values the Internet as a research tool, but he finds some stories published on the Web -- scandals especially -- play too fast and loose with the facts.
"I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet. I expect that to develop in the fairly near future," he said.
        --Walter Cronkite - Aug. 16, 2004

I wonder how Walter feels about his boy wonder these days?

[cyncooper]

If Walter likes "the cause" he approves of playing fast and loose with the facts, despite that quaint quote. He just doesn't like it when real investigations uncover dem/lib skullduggery.

[JOAT]

". . .The newsman said he values the Internet as a research tool, but he finds some stories published on the Web -- scandals especially -- play too fast and loose with the facts. "I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet. I expect that to develop in the fairly near future," he said. --Walter Cronkite - Aug. 16, 2004

Translation: Establishment-types will push for limitations of free speech on the internet using lawsuits as the vehicle to frighten the little people into silence.