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dixiegrrrrl

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12. On this anniversary of death of JFK, I think of Walter Cronkite

Reply to BlueStreak (Reply #3)

Thu Nov 22, 2012, 06:06 PM

Nov 2012

Last edited Thu Nov 22, 2012, 07:31 PM - Edit history (1)

and of how the news was broadcast back then.
Seriously.
somberly.

News was reported, not created, on air.

Cronkite was rated "the most trusted man in America".

Mainstream news today is a sad joke.

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