Walter Cronkite Citas

• The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

  Walter Cronkite

  Personas, Necesidades, Quieren

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• Ahora mismo somos una nación ignorante. No somos realmente capaces, no lo creo, la mayoría de nuestro pueblo, de tomar las decisiones que hay que tomar en tiempo de elecciones y particularmente en la selección de sus legislaturas y su Congreso y la presidencia, por supuesto. No creo que seamos lo suficientemente brillantes para hacer el trabajo que preservaría nuestra democracia, nuestra república. Creo que estamos en grave peligro.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Jobs, Thinking

  "Dolly Parton's Anniversary; Walter Cronkite on Peter Jennings". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 30, 2005.

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  The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

  Walter Cronkite

  Prejudice, Ethics, Print

  Source: www.midtod.com

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  We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

  Walter Cronkite

  Leader, Enough, Educated

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• We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue.

  Walter Cronkite

  People, Population, Growing

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• Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

  Walter Cronkite

  Democracy, Important, Censorship

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• En la búsqueda de la verdad hay que conocer las dos caras de la historia.

  Walter Cronkite

  Truth, Two Sides, Stories

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• We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

  Walter Cronkite

  Ignorant, Democracy, Precipice

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• If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

  Walter Cronkite

  Long, News, Unbiased

  "Walter Cronkite Review: 'Gawd Almighty,' Shout 'the Truths' of Liberalism" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. July 20, 2009.

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• Como presentador de las Noticias Vespertinas de la CBS, terminé mis emisiones nocturnas durante casi dos décadas con una simple frase: "Y así son las cosas". Para mí, eso resume el ideal más elevado del periodista: informar de los hechos tal y como los ve, sin importarle las consecuencias o la controversia que puedan surgir.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Simple, Two

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  America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

  Walter Cronkite

  Health, Caring, America

  "Confucius (and Mark Twain) Say: Boycott 'Health Care' and 'Health Care System' Unless That’s What We Mean" by John Weeks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2016.

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• El éxito es más permanente cuando lo logras sin destruir tus principios.

  Walter Cronkite

  Inspirational, Success, Accountability

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• The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

  Walter Cronkite

  Class, People, Political

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• I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.

  Walter Cronkite

  Loyalty, Party, Independent

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• No existe un poco de libertad. O sois todos libres, o no sois libres.

  Walter Cronkite

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Littles

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• And that's the way it is.

  Walter Cronkite

  Inspiration, Way, Journalism

  Catchphrase, used at the end of the CBS Evening News (1962-81).

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• I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.

  Walter Cronkite

  Law, Would Be, Internet

  "Walter Cronkite lays down his pen", www.today.com. August 17, 2004.

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• It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

  Walter Cronkite

  Jobs, Lying, Patriotism

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• Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

  Walter Cronkite

  Jobs, Truth, Mirrors

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• Cualquiera que sea el coste de nuestras bibliotecas, el precio es barato comparado con el de una nación ignorante.

  Walter Cronkite

  Inspirational, Education, Ignorant

  "The price of libraries is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation" by Abigail Tarttelin, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2013.

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• Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. If there's a criticism to be made today, it's that the press isn't doing enough to put the pressure on the government to provide information.

  Walter Cronkite

  Media, Names, Government

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• In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

  Walter Cronkite

  Freedom, Years, News

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• La batalla por las ondas no puede limitarse sólo a aquellos que tienen las cuentas bancarias para pagar la batalla y ganarla.

  Walter Cronkite

  Winning, Battle, Pay

  "Free the Air Waves!" by Walter Cronkite, www.gothamgazette.com. November 4, 2002.

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• Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

  Walter Cronkite

  Government, Names, Duty

  "Probe the Past To Protect the Future" by Andrew Kreig, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2009.

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• For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.

  Walter Cronkite

  Years, Savages, Calling

  Address on receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award at the UN Delegates Dining Room, October 19, 1999.

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