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| 2024-03-04 |
| [Powerline] When you watch Walter Cronkite, my recent piece should have read, "you not only CBS but hear it too." That was certainly true, particularly of Cronkite’s Vietnam coverage, but as Douglas Brinkley explained in the 819-page Cronkite, there’s more that people should know. Cronkite had worked with Sidney Lumet to adapt the radio show "You Are There" for television. Lumet directed Network, which Cronkite saw in a private screening. As Brinkley notes, the film "hit close to home," as "much about TV newsgathering was a sham." As anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) explained: Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We’re in the boredom-killing business! So if you want the truth. Go to God! Go to your gurus! Go to yourselves! Because that’s the only place you’re ever going to find any real truth. Yeah, and besides that, Faye Dunaway was hot. Read the rest at the link Related: Walter Cronkite: 2022-11-30 Frank Hawkins - The 10 Most Destructive Americans of My 8 Decades Walter Cronkite: 2022-11-23 CBS ‘confirms' Hunter Biden laptop is real 769 days after Post broke story Walter Cronkite: 2022-06-23 CNN, NBC, MSNBC journalists say Republicans can't be covered equally with Democrats |
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