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I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.

We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.

Walter Cronkite was the last newsman everyone trusted in the same way that the Beatles were the last music everyone loved and Marilyn was the last star everyone concurred was worthy of the word.

I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.