When he delivered the news, we trusted it
PERHAPS the hardest thing to explain to the generation that wasn’t even alive when Walter Cronkite last anchored "The CBS Evening News" is how a TV newsman could ever have been considered "the most trusted man in America." A TV newsman with facial hair, at that. But for those who grew up in the years between the decline of radio and the rise of cable and the Internet – a period that now seems shockingly brief – the dominance of the nightly network news was, as Cronkite might have put it, "the way it is," and the former wire-service reporter from St. Joseph, Mo., one of the chief narrators of our times. The whole world might not have been watching when Cronkite’s…
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