http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2008/07/10/when-reporters-become-the-news-we-all-lose/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:08:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2008/07/10/when-reporters-become-the-news-we-all-lose/comment-page-1/#comment-91466 Kate C. Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:08:21 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=9061#comment-91466 I wonder if you were actually alive to watch Walter Cronkite? I remember only four times in the 30 years of newcasts and special reports when he stepped out of his news-first stance to offer his opinion or emotional reaction--when Armstrong landed on the moon, when our president was assassinated, when one of his reporters was beaten up before our eyes and when his trip to Viet Nam to see what was happening on the ground changed his mind about the information that the government had been feeding the country. Even then, his reactions were about and on behalf of the American people whom he served, not for his own glory. He has always worn celebrity lightly, and humbly, first and foremost a dedicated journalist and patriot just trying to do his job the best he could. I wonder if you were actually alive to watch Walter Cronkite? I remember only four times in the 30 years of newcasts and special reports when he stepped out of his news-first stance to offer his opinion or emotional reaction–when Armstrong landed on the moon, when our president was assassinated, when one of his reporters was beaten up before our eyes and when his trip to Viet Nam to see what was happening on the ground changed his mind about the information that the government had been feeding the country. Even then, his reactions were about and on behalf of the American people whom he served, not for his own glory. He has always worn celebrity lightly, and humbly, first and foremost a dedicated journalist and patriot just trying to do his job the best he could.

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