Walter Cronkite Quotes About Journalism

Quotes about: Journalism

• There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

  Walter Cronkite

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Littles

• If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

  Walter Cronkite

  Long, News, Unbiased

  "Walter Cronkite Review: 'Gawd Almighty,' Shout 'the Truths' of Liberalism" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. July 20, 2009.

• The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

  Walter Cronkite

  People, Needs, Want

• As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is." To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Simple, Two

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

  Walter Cronkite

  Objectivity, Magazines, Opinion

• Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough.

  Walter Cronkite

  Media, Tiny, Pills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.

  Walter Cronkite

  Impact, Air, Doe

• And that's the way it is.

  Walter Cronkite

  Inspiration, Way, Journalism

  Catchphrase, used at the end of the CBS Evening News (1962-81).

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