Cronkite Quits Column to Focus on In-Depth Docs
..but not without slamming contemporary news services as a whole:
Our evening news broadcasts are just a half hour and there are commercials in that half hour, so that the news period is about 17 minutes ... I have a great complaint that with the complicated nation that we have and with the complicated world in which we play a role, that is not nearly enough time to handle just the basic news of the day ...
"... and thats the way it is."
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posted by Jimbo Trout @ Thursday, August 19, 2004
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