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The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.

~Walter Cronkite

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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.

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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

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I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.

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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

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Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.

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Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.

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I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.

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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.

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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: November 4th, 1916

Died: July 17th, 2009

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