Zitate und Sprüche von Walter Cronkite

Objektiver Journalismus und eine Spalte mit persönlichen Meinungen sind genau so vergleichbar, wie die Bibel und der Playboy.

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

Wir brauchen Journalismus, damit die Demokratie funktioniert.

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

Um die Wahrheit zu finden, muss man beide Seiten einer Geschichte kennen.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.