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Originally Posted by whell
We no longer live in the media world of Walter Cronkite, who was once voted the most trusted man in America. We live in hyper-partisan times, and cable news both reflects that American divide and exacerbates the divisions — for ratings and for advertising dollars.
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We don't want the world of Cronkite. What we should want is the world of Murrow. Cronkite supported the commercialization of television news. Murrow wanted advertising during TV news broadcasts minimized, if not eliminated altogether. The major entertainment networks were making a fortune giving us only 42 minutes of program time in every hour long program...22 minutes in every half hour program, a a they still are. Cronkite was a tool of TV advertising, and he used this to convince Paley at CBS that Murrow should no longer be director of CBS NEWS. There was more and more interference in the content of Murrow's segments like "See It Now" and the CBS documentary news series "CBS Reports." If there was one man who saved this country from the scourge of Joseph McCarthy, it was Murrow. It took Murrow to turn the ignorant American electorate against McCarthy, no doubt one of whell's heroes. Cronkite reported on the murder of JFK...big fucking deal.
Murrow was the best.