Late CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite may have been at one time “the most trusted man in America,” but he was hardly infallible. When he broke his own code of objectivity to editorialize against the ...

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Parting words tonight from the late Walter Cronkite. On February 27th, 1968 during a CBS News Special Report, Cronkite did something that changed America's perception of the Vietnam War. Mr. WALTER ...

For decades the war in Vietnam was the central drama on the stage of Southeast Asia. It was an intensely publicized war, the first television war that came roaring into the living rooms of America ...

Daniel Ellsberg (left) unleashed a political crisis when he distributed the classified Pentagon Papers— extensive documentation on the United States’s extended, often secret involvement in Vietnam—to ...

Cronkite was 92. "Walter was always more than just an anchor. He was someone we could trust to guide us through the most important issues of the day; a voice of certainty in an un ...

Watching old clips of Walter Cronkite as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News" has the faint whiff of "Mad Men" nostalgia to it - in the best possible way. His heyday as what was ...

Ask anyone over the age of 40, and he or she will likely say that the last great American broadcast journalist was Walter Cronkite. From 1937 until 1981, Cronkite reported on many important events in ...

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The satellites were finally ready to beam images back to Earth in 1969. And some 600 million people watched the event live. By Tiffany Hsu A former CBS Evening News producer discounts the notion that ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Over the last two days, print and televised media have managed to work themselves into a state of high dudgeon ...

After an astonishing concession to a sitting president, the country’s most popular television news program faces the prospect of new ownership and a chilled environment for the First Amendment. By ...