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CRONKITE: KARL ROVE BEHIND BIN LADEN TAPE Sat Oct 30 2004 16:31:19 ET Former CBSNEWS anchorman Walter Cronkite believes Bush adviser Karl Rove is possibly behind the new Bin Laden tape. Cronkite made the startling comments late Friday during an interview on CNN. Cronkite said he is "inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing." Interviewer Larry King did not ask Cronkite to elaborate on the provocative election eve accusation. Developing...

Walter Cronkite Decries War in Iraq SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Veteran newsman Walter Cronkite said Americans aren't any safer because of the U.S.-led war on Iraq. "The problem, quite clearly, is we have excited the Arab world, the Muslim world, to take up arms against us," Cronkite said Saturday, adding that this excitement far exceeds the anger that existed among terrorist groups prior to the war. Cronkite made the comments after receiving an award from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation during the group's gala at Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort. He said the Nov. 2 presidential election will be one of...

Dan Rather produces forged Air Force documents and lies to the American people about a sitting president, but CBS goes about business as usual, refusing to correct the problem. Walter Cronkite calls Internet bloggers "scandalmongers," but obviously biased reporters are "journalists." Tom Brokaw defends Rather and falsified news saying that anyone demanding unbiased and honest news reporting is attempting to "demonize CBS News" with a "kind of demagoguery." Major newspapers regularly begin their liberal political editorials on the front page and call it news rather than opinion. The major networks, most major newspapers, Reuters, and the Associated Press all seem...

Last week, Cliff Kincaid, Editor of the Accuracy In Media Report[1], wrote that at least two in Congress have considered a Rathergate hearing. Actually, the way I heard it was that Rep. Chris Cox requested that House Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX) schedule a hearing but Barton was not overly enthused with the idea. Rep. Barton is quoted as saying, "A news organization's responsibility is to facts and truth, but the oversight of network news generally is a matter best sorted out by the viewing public and the news media." I wholeheartedly agree. There is a simple reason most...

I just finished reading a very interesting article summing up the recent Society of Professional Journalists Association Convention meetings. I highly encourage you to read the whole article, not just this vitriol laced whopper from Walter Cronkite.'I cannot understand how the Internet should have gotten so entriely oblivious to the whole theory of libel and slander.''How is it possible for these people to get on the air with any allegation they want to make, any statement they want to make as if it were true, as if they were journalists which they are clearly not? They are scandalmongers.' Yeah, Walter...

On Friday night, I ran into "60 Minutes" veteran Mike Wallace and his lovely wife Mary at an all-star screening of a documentary about John Kerry's Vietnam service. Wallace confirmed for me the long-running rumor/open secret that Dan Rather has kept Walter Cronkite, his beloved predecessor, from appearing on CBS News since his retirement after 19 years on the job in 1981. Instead of becoming an éminence grise or a Yoda for the network like the late Eric Sevareid, who appeared at the end of each of Cronkite's broadcasts with an editorial, Cronkite was sent to network Siberia. Cronkite was...

Famed anchorman Walter Cronkite, once widely considered the most trusted figure in news, called the journalistic mistake that has marred CBS' credibility ``embarrassing,'' but stopped short of placing blame or predicting the network's future. ``We must wait while CBS management conduct the investigation they have promised. We can then decide what our reaction to it should be,'' said Cronkite, 87, whose CBS newscasts reached millions of Americans for more than three decades. ``The reaction at the moment of course is embarrassment for everyone who is connected to CBS, and that embarrassment I hope will be squashed in time as we...

"Walter Cronkite and Brian Williams,the past,present and future of television news."

Media: Walter Cronkite is retiring (again?) and has issued a warning about Internet journalism. It seems he has questions about its accuracy.Of course, he doesn't have the same concerns about the mainstream media, though he certainly should.Not that Cronkite could ever imagine that the establishment print and broadcast news is biased, because he's been a part of it for more than 60 years.Yet the bias exists, and that's exactly why the Web is necessary: to offer an alternative to the left-leaning disposition of the media and their coloring of the news.For today's example, we look at a story that appeared...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lamenting the lack of depth in television news, the man considered the most trusted person on TV, Walter Cronkite, ends his current job this coming Tuesday right back where he started, as a newspaperman. In his final column in a year-long stint writing for the King Features Syndicate, Cronkite, 87, calls his decades as the nightly news anchor for broadcast network CBS "rewarding," but "not entirely satisfactory" due to time limitations that prevented deep reporting of any one story. "We're talking about covering one of the most complicated and important nations of the world ... and...

With this nation embroiled in what threatens to be an interminable "War on Terrorism," an idea put forward last year by Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich has considerable appeal. Kucinich, who was the one candidate in the Democratic primaries to unfailingly promote the party's traditional Franklin Roosevelt liberalism, proposed the establishment of a Department of Peace. Now he has introduced in the House HR 2459, a bill that would establish a Peace Department, adding a new Cabinet post to the executive branch of government. The Department of Peace would "advise the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State on all...

Proud To Serve: The Men and Women of the U.S. Army “It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us freedom to demonstrate It is the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us a right to a fair trial It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves under the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the...

Walter Cronkite, the retired CBS anchor, is back on TV but not on his old network. The 87-year-old ultra-liberal former anchor man, once known as "the most trusted man in America," debuts on MTV's "Choose or Lose: Work It," at 10:30 EDT tonight. According to Newsday, Cronkite will air his opinions in five- or six-minute segments, but both Cronkite and MTV News boss Dave Sirulnick told Newsday they are talking about the possibility of such future assignments as an on-air role during the conventions and Election Night. If so, it will be his first real election-year TV assignment since the...

BROOKLINE, Pa. - It's showtime at Elizabeth Seton Center in this well-groomed Pittsburgh suburb, and a feisty crowd of retirees is tuned in to an old favorite, Uncle Walter. On display is a video presentation narrated by Walter Cronkite on the details of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, passed in December. For the seniors, the 13-minute video confirms what a growing number of them suspected: that the new law, muscled through the Republican-controlled Congress and embraced by the White House as an election-year vote-getter, is in reality a multibillion dollar giveaway to drug makers and...

The Denver Post walter cronkite When secrecy protects a lie By Walter Cronkite Sunday, April 04, 2004 - The initial refusal of President Bush to let his national-security adviser appear under oath before the Sept. 11 Commission might have been in keeping with a principle followed by other presidents - the principle being, according to Bush, that calling his advisers to testify under oath is a congressional encroachment on the executive branch's turf. (Never mind that this commission is not a congressional body, but one he created and whose members he handpicked.) But standing on that principle has proved to...

 Dear Sen. Kerry: In the interests of your campaign and your party's desire to unseat George W. Bush, you have some explaining to do. During the primary campaign, your Democratic opponents accused you of flip-flopping on several important issues, such as your vote in favor of the Iraq War resolution. Certainly your sensitivity to nuance, your ability to see shades of gray where George Bush sees only black and white, explains some of your difficulty. Shades of gray don't do well in political campaigns, where primary colors are the rule. And your long and distinguished service in the Senate has...

The Denver Post walter cronkite Dear Senator Kerry ... By Walter Cronkite Sunday, March 21, 2004 - Dear Sen. Kerry: In the interests of your campaign and your party's desire to unseat George W. Bush, you have some explaining to do. During the primary campaign, your Democratic opponents accused you of flip-flopping on several important issues, such as your vote in favor of the Iraq War resolution. Certainly your sensitivity to nuance, your ability to see shades of gray where George Bush sees only black and white, explains some of your difficulty. Shades of gray don't do well in political...

Dear Sen. Kerry: In the interests of your campaign and your party's desire to unseat George W. Bush, you have some explaining to do. During the primary campaign, your Democratic opponents accused you of flip-flopping on several important issues, such as your vote in favor of the Iraq war resolution. Certainly your sensitivity to nuance, your ability to see shades of gray where George Bush sees only black and white, explains some of your difficulty. Shades of gray don't do well in political campaigns, where primary colors are the rule. And your long and distinguished service in the Senate has...

Dear Sen. Kerry: In the interests of your campaign and your party's desire to unseat George W. Bush, you have some explaining to do. During the primary campaign, your Democratic opponents accused you of flip-flopping on several important issues, such as your vote in favor of the Iraq War resolution. Certainly your sensitivity to nuance, your ability to see shades of gray where George Bush sees only black and white, explains some of your difficulty. Shades of gray don't do well in political campaigns, where primary colors are the rule. And your long and distinguished service in the Senate has...

Bill O'Reilly reports that Walter Cronkite has recently said that he would not mind marrying a man.