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Cronkite
by Douglas Brinkley
by Douglas Brinkley
"Most correspondents supplied the puffery only as necessary, to remain on good terms with the PR officers. Cronkite eagerly wrote propaganda for the good of the Allied cause. He was a reporter for Democracy. 'We were all on the same side,' Cronkite later said, 'and most of us newsmen abandoned any thought of impartiality as we reported on the heroism of our boys and the bestiality of the hated Nazis.'"
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| 07/02/2012 | page 284 |
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34.0% | ""Since the advent of real-time Web journalism in the early twenty-first century, breaking news is disseminated differently, with a different -- and less unified -- experience than that of the millions of Americans synchronistically watching as Cronkite announced Kennedy's death. Should there be such an event today, a huge population of citizens wouldn't turn to their TV sets. They'd go immediately to their Apple ..."" |
