The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
From Walter Cronkite
I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.
When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.
You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers.
I think people make way too much of ratings.
I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
I'm one of the best condensers in the business.
Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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