Walter Cronkite Thoughts

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.

In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.