Video: Salute to Better Journalism From Walter Cronkite

From Denny: This is news anchor Brian Williams' tribute to the great journalist Walter Cronkite. Cronkite embodied the best of TV journalism. He came from a time when there were those journalists who chose to be of good character and think responsibly about how they affected their viewers by what they said and how they said it.

Today, marketing, huge salaries and big business influences or downright drives the opinions on the news. Where are the affable principled Cronkites now for this generation? When the public quits supporting unprincipled deceptive journalists that's when the media will start delivering what they should have delivered all along: the whole truth, not marketing for a desired effect.

Kudos to those journalists today who have labored in obscurity while maintaining their principles and good character - like the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain speaking the truth during the Bush years when the rest of the media became tame obedient lap dogs. If Obama gets re-elected again it will be interesting to see how many journalists start working up their courage to do better. Let's hope for the best.

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