Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
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I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.
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.
You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.
I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.
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 am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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.
Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
My role at NBC was president of 'NBC News.' I had that role for eight years.
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.