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Not the least of the Democratic Party's problems in the presidential election ahead is the electorate's confusion as to just what the party stands for. In the last presidential and congressional elections, many voters and perhaps even more nonvoters complained that they found no political philosophy, no idealistic glue that held the Democratic Party together. If the Democratic Party is to have hope of recapturing the White House, it will be helpful if its candidates for the presidential nomination agree on some basic objectives that will clearly define the principal policies and goals of their party. Those basic goals still...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Veteran CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, long regarded as the most trusted man in America, will for the first time opine in public via a syndidated newspaper column starting in August, distributor King Features Syndicate said Tuesday. "And That's the Way I See It" will debut on Aug. 3 with Cronkite writing about a wide range of subjects, mainly involving government, politics, the media, and current affairs. Cronkite, 86, has worked intermittantly since his retirement in 1981, mainly reporting documentaries for CBS and Discovery Channel as well as writing several books.

Opponents mock North Woods plan "Take this park and shove it,To New Hampshire or Vermont, It's our state and we love it, And we know what we don't want, We want to hunt, and camp, and fish, The way we've always done, And it is our undying wish, To keep the G-man on the run." - Matthew Heintz TOWNSHIP 1 RANGE 9 - Ted Danson didn't show. Neither did Robert Redford, Meryl Streep or Walter Cronkite. But nearly 300 people from all over the state gathered at the Big Moose Inn - on Millinocket Lake inside the proposed Maine Woods...

SOME TIME in the morning of April 9, 2003, as the statue of Saddam Hussein was being hauled down in Baghdad, another statue--of Walter Cronkite, famed CBS newsman--hacked at with hammers by various bloggers, also came crashing down. Cronkite, once called "the most trusted man in America," was believed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to have turned the American public against the Vietnam War. This time, Cronkite had done his best to turn the American public against the war in Iraq, but no one paid any attention. Of course, he had been out of public life for quite a long...

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Under the Constitution, giving "aid and comfort" to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason. So far as I know no one has yet suggested that Peter Arnett be charged with that capital offense. But it seems that Mr. Arnett hangs by a rope of his own weaving. Mr. Arnett, of course, is the former reporter in Baghdad for NBC and National Geographic who was fired for giving an interview to state-controlled Iraqi television. In the interview he criticized the American military effort and praised the morale of the Iraqi people and the cooperation of Iraq's information...

He doesn't care for the President, declaring him "arrogant" and comparing him to a chimpanzee at one point, and unflatteringly referring to President Bush's advisers as "cohorts," while elegantly labeling the advisers to Bobby Kennedy as a "coterie." But like the President or not, Walter Cronkite told an overflow audience at Drew University in Madison on Tuesday, March 18, military action against Iraq had become inevitable, and "the time has come to give our full support to the troops involved." They deserve our loyalty, Cronkite said, as they go to war through no fault of their own. The third speaker...

No surprise, ideologues on both the left and the right are screaming that the media coverage of the Iraq War is slanted away from their beliefs. The sound and fury of partisans is predictable and not very important, because there are so many media outlets that the sheer amount of information Americans can potentially get obliterates any narrow agenda an individual journalist might have As far as TV news is concerned, the reportorial flow of information is occasionally tainted by a biased remark, but this is not a serious problem, because, again, there is just so much verbiage. However, there...

How do you get the title of "the most trusted man in America"? Apparently you do it by deceiving most Americans. Walter Cronkite, who used to anchor the CBS Evening News, managed to hide his true colors for years; but like most things, everything comes out in the wash. Mr. Cronkite spent 60 years in "journalism," of which 31 years were spent at CBS. He left his job at CBS in 1981. During the mid 1970's, he was voted among the top ten "most influential decision-makers in America," by U.S. News and World Report. It was a time before cable...

<p>MADISON - The "most trusted man in America," retired CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite, put aside his journalistic impartiality Tuesday night and issued a blistering dissent to President Bush's decision to wage war with Iraq.</p> <p>At a Drew University forum, Cronkite said he feared the war would not go smoothly, ripped the "arrogance" of Bush and his administration and wondered whether the new U.S. doctrine of "pre-emptive war" might lead to unintended, dire consequences.</p>

MADISON, N.J. (AP) -- Citing what he called the "arrogance" of President Bush and his administration, retired CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite said the impending war with Iraq could have unintended, dire consequences for the United States. Speaking Tuesday at a Drew University forum, Cronkite issued a stinging rebuke of Bush and those who believe the war will be a quick, smooth operation that ends with the ouster of Saddam Hussein. He said the refusal of France and other traditional U.S. allies to support the administration's plans signaled something deeper, and more ominous, than a mere foreign policy disagreement....

To determine this year’s winners, a panel of 52 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers and media observers each selected their choices for the first, second and third best quote from a slate of six to nine quotes in each category. Each received a paper ballot in late November and returned it within two weeks. Now, the winning quotes in 17 award categories: Media Hero Award “For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.” --...

<p>PHOENIX (AP) -- Solitary action by the United States against Iraq could lead to World War III, former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite says.</p> <p>"I see a great danger if we go it alone or with Great Britain as our only ally," Cronkite said at a news conference Thursday before an annual award in his name was presented to longtime ABC sportscaster Al Michaels.</p>

2002-10-03 01:56:46 PT Former anchor of the CBS Evening News, and Dan Rather's predecessor, Walter Cronkite denounced the Bush administration's Iraq policy. Cronkite made the remarks on CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports while explaining his signing of a Common Cause ad in the New York Times questioning the president's actions. "I think a primary question is in the resolution that the president wants Congress to pass which would give him the right to go to war at any time he wants." The Bush administration seems to "wish to run the country without any consent of Congress at all," Cronkite said....

Remember during the early 1970s when CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite claimed to be an unbiased journalist despite his obvious slant against the Vietnam War? Now he's advertising his bias for all the world to see. Along with former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and a host of other leftists, Uncle Walter has his name on a full-page ad in today's New York Times that attacks President Bush's policy on Iraq. "To which US national security interests does Saddam Hussein present a clear and present danger?" wonders the wide-eyed ad. Apparently the usual suspects who lent their names to the...