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Cronkite, at His Apex
How do feel when you show up in the polls as the most trusted man in America?
If it is complimentary, obviously I like it. I think it is a mistake for anybody, however, to assume I’m any kind of fountainhead of wisdom, which I, sure as the devil, am not and do not pretend to be. What I try to be is a newsman. I have never wanted to be a pundit. I don’t think I am equipped to be a pundit. I don’t feel any privilege of intelligence or knowledge that would make me a pundit. I like trying to tell the facts each day, the news. Be sure they are facts, be sure they are not colored. Try to make it as objective as I possibly can. I think that is the highest calling of journalism. That’s what I want to do and what I want to do best if I can.
How much do you earn at it?
I don’t like to go into that. I don’t think there is any reason for public knowledge. It is a good journalistic question and I would ask it if I were you, but I am not going to answer it.
Do you think as a newsman you should earn as much money as you do?
No, I don’t. But I think that television personalities should. If you are working in a business where they pay rock stars and comedians and actors what they do, then God bless them all if they can get that much money. But if that’s the criterion, then I think the newsmen ought to get their share. When I say “No”, I am putting it on the basis that I am certainly not worth more than you’re worth or (New York Times columnist) Scotty Reston is worth or Tom Wicker is worth, guys who are writing for print, by any means.
Is that's the way it is?
That’s the way it is.
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JohnHedtke
He was an amazing man and I'm sorry he's gone.
gak001
America has lost one of its true greats. The man is a legend and it's a tragedy to lose such a treasure.
cregis
I'm tired of hearing about the great Walter Cronkite, before him was Douglas Edwards with the CBS Evening News and I hear nothing about him. Anybody can read the news.
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