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"And that's the way it is." - Walter Cronkite A whole lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential statistics, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important women and men in the time it takes to complete a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The climb of cable marketing in the 21st hundred years has seen news programming become more opinionated and partisan than ever before. It has led many nostalgic Us citizens to yearn for the news programs of earlier times, with the seemingly objective anchor just providing viewers the reality. While that bygone era is without doubt idealized and romanticized to a certain degree beyond what it actually was, nobody epitomizes that era like Walter Cronkite, America's most famous news anchor. Still a household name today, decades after he went off air, Cronkite continues to be remembered as the type of trusted broadcaster whose accounts could be taken as real truth. His outsized effect on the American taking a look at public is best remembered in one of the more memorable anecdotes of Cronkite's profession, which came through the Vietnam War when he opined nearby the end of one broadcast, "Nonetheless it is more and more clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then is to negotiate, much less victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could".
