>> walter cronkite's america too was not necessarily a media paradise, you know? there were so many stories that went uncovered or undercovered or just utterly ignored by the media hegemony. >> over here. >> um, sometime after january 8th last year i read an article, i can't remember if it was the star or the republic, they had talked to, they had interviewed doctors, psychiatrists who said that if you are schizophrenic, you're pretty much, you're not paying much attention to what's happening in the culture around you, that you're pretty much living inside your own head, and i wondered if tom zeller and, of course, the other offers if they wish -- authors if they wish would comment on the sphere of the shooting in that respect. >> absolutely. i spend a lot of time about pair pair -- paranoid schizophrenia. the media tendency quickly emerged that he was live anything a parallel reality that this came from only inside his own head, and it had nothing to do with anything else around him. and numerous studies have shown that although paranoid schizophrenics do suffer

finally the whole spectacle of this manipulated scene which i could get above and write about even of cronkite and barbara walters and company. i had a lot of witty and sarcastic material as well. it was a great joy and i was writing with a fury that mix on held us to one seat. we wanted help. our deadline which meant i had to sit up all day covering it. >> do you think in retrospect they overplayed the game changing significance? >> in nixonian terms, yes. the back story of all of this is a piece of history. they were selling themselves so not only communist chinese and having no dealings with them while we were in fact having lots of dealings with the russians, but insisting that the democrats if they made any approaches to china would suffer for it politically. because they lost china to the communists. what nixon was exploiting was the readiness of the american public that our politicians had maneuvered themselves into preventing. he himself personified that resistance. a new diplomacy to china. it made this an epic event. as much in american politics as in international diplomacy. it was

listen to this from walter cronkite appeared just before he died. cronkite said, what do i regret?ll, i regret that in our attempt to establish some standard, we didn't make them stay. we couldn't pass -- we couldn't find a way to pass our standards on to another generation. it's not sad? and that is where we are today. and you know, i see it every day, even at the white house can which is supposed to be the best of the best. classic example, john boehner is out there all the time, does it all the time and says the stimulus did not create one single job. as john boehner has been to iowa hominy ribbon cuttings in his own district for new projects that are funded by recovery dollars and yet he says vista. and so i've heard this happening. a reporter will ask a question. well, john boehner says the stimulus didn't create one single job. he says this is not true. look at the congressional budget office. they put daddy, added that the jobs but the 2.3 million jobs due to stimulus dollars. and so what is the story? white house and boehner disagreed over and had a stimulus. instead of cha

. >> walter cronkite, distinguished correspondent, is our guest narrator as the u.s. army proudly turns back a page of its own history to salute citizen soldier george marshall. >> the marshall family had settled in southwestern pennsylvania a few years before george catlet was born in 1880. a union town, he entered a slow-moving world that was more a part of the past than of the future. marshall's boyhood passed quietly and the only contact this serious child had with the army he would someday serve came secondhand through his father's recollections of the civil war. america's indian frontier had only recently been tamed and the stories of carson and custer were still fresh enough to excite the imagination of any boy. looking backward over the years, it's hard to find the precise reason why young george marshall decided to make the army his profession. but choose it he did and he began his soldiering at a soldier school. the virginia military institute trained many distinguished army men before george marshall arrived in september 1897. they once boasted stonewall ja

spectacle of this manipulated scene, which i could get above and write about, making fun even of cronkite and barbara walters and company, so that i had a lot of witty and sarcastic material as well to go with the very heavy diplomacy. it was a great spectacle and a great joy. of course, i was writing with a fury that nixon had held us to one seat. we wanted help. our deadline was such that i had to file by breakfast in beijing. which meant i had to sit up all night writing and all day covering. there was no chance to sleep. it was a nightmare. and here we are. we survived. >> do you think in retrospect, we have overplayed the significance and the meaning, game-changing significance of this trip? >> in nixonian terms, yes. the back story of all this is a piece nixon and company and largely the republican party were responsible for creating the china problem, for selling themselves so heavily to the support of taiwan and alienating not only communist chinese and having no dealings with them, while we were, in fact, having lots of dealings with the russians. but insisting that the democrats

back during vietnam, lyndon johnson turned to his aides once and said if we've lost walter cronkite,e've lost the world. i think the military lost a lot of americans this weekend. >> at one point i thought you were comparing walter cronkite to mike barnicle. >> close. >> mik, thank you very much. >>> let's make the turn to politics. rick santorum, coming off a good weekend in kansas. as the romney campaign is claiming momentum. santorum won by 30 points, 30 points ahead of romney. romney swept the contests in guam, the u.s. virgin islands, and the northern mariana islands. also at wyoming's county conventions on saturday. romney added 39 delegates to his total this weekend, santorum got 36, romney leads santorum by more than 200 delegates. rick santorum, though, is rejecting the argument that his rival's edge in delegates makes him inevitable. >> romney needs about 50% to be -- on the current track we're on right now, the fact is, that governor romney doesn't get to that number. the idea you just make projections, this isn't a mathematical formula. someone who has spent 10 to 1 all t

. >> walter cronkite was there, is he in that picture? i can't tell. >> i think he is. all the journalists who were there, it was taken and nixon said let's have a group picture taken, and i imagine they are all there, because they tended to go as a group. max frankel from "the times" is there. >> he's in the picture. >> i'm trying to think who else is there. >> also in the picture this wouldn't mean much to most of our viewers but there's all kinds of very valuable people, namely technicians and lighting people and camera people are in this picture, the whole american press group. >> i suspect they're all the networks vice presidents because they didn't get permission to go so they said they would come along as lighting experts, and so they sort of got themselves in as technicians. but it was an amazing crew. and the chinese didn't know what had hit them. when nixon and kissinger and li were negotiating the details of the trip and kissinger said, of course, we'd like to bring some press and li coming from a society where there isn't a free press. what are you thinking

next stop, arizona state's walter cronkite school of journalism.ill continue with us throughout the spring season, but no surprise, she's a good athlete and about to start lacrosse season. we wish her the best. so great stuff. >> great shooter and great energy. >> she'll take my job, i'm sure. my days are numbered. >> all right dave. we'll see you. still to come, facebook changes up the privacy policy. some users crying foul. what it might mean for the safety of your personal information. plus -- >> i'm kristin fisher in rockville and this is where a woman had a heart attack two weeks ago. now, she's on a mission to find the good samaritan that she thinks saved her life. her story is coming up. >>> but first, music is soothing to the soul. in tonight's health alert, we discovered it's also very good for the body. it will explain what that's about up next. >>> in tonight's health alert, music and its benefits following organ transplantation. researchers looked at heart transplants in mice and found that opera and classical music influenced how the i

woman elected to the house of representatives announced her bid for the white house prompting walter cronkited al sharpton as her youth director. she campaigned vigorously in state after state including california. california, and you see that california rules declared it a winner-take-all contest, but the national democratic party rules required that the delegates be apportioned. california gave all of the delegates to mcgovern even by national rules she had earned 12 delegates. the campaign led the battle of winner take all versus the national proportional rules at the national convention, and ultimately she won 152 delegates to the convention. and that fight over how the delegate rule changes continued for three decades. rule changes critically important for a young senator from illinois who secured the democratic party nomination 36 years later. shirley chisolm said she wanted to be remembered as a catalyst for change. indeed, she was. on a personal note, shirley chisolm inspired my daughter's fourth grade project. i accompanied her to the brooklyn college, and check out more from on our

he will support ted kennedy in what what he wants to do, he will send barbara walters and walter cronkite him look good in front of the public and the united states of america. 1980, jimmy carter goes to arm & hammer. he -- you let the soviet jews go back to israel. carter if reelected will remember you after he's reelected and be good to the soviet bloc. 1983. kennedy wakes up again and through john tunney reaches out again to the soviets and says, i'll help you with reagan if you will help the democrats win the election in 1984. jimmy carter this time. goes to them and says we can't have reagan as the president. this world is better off if we have another president in 1984, walter mondale. 1984. tip o'neil at a dinner goes to a dinner with the soviets and says it's in the best interest of the so yets and the democrats to get rid of that demagogue reagan and put someone else in, walter mondale. this is historic for the liberals to go to the soviets, the enemies of freedom to get themselves elected. what i saw unfold in seoul, south korea was all too familiar to me. megyn: you think that

the hall of famous missourians at the state capitol alongside governors and mark twain and walter cronkitea punk. >> he's actually a very good person. and i'm sure he will be just fine. >> reporter: and while rush is facing the music, someone was actually listening to the music playing ever so slow during rush's rant.

the hall of famous missourians at the state capitol alongside governors and mark twain and walter cronkitea punk. >> he's actually a very good person. and i'm sure he will be just fine. >> reporter: and while rush is facing the music, someone was actually listening to the music playing ever so slow during rush's rant. >> what does it say that college co-ed susan fluke. >> reporter: that's peter gabriel's song "sledgehammer." and he doesn't want rush using it anymore, even if the music video does feature a sperm. jeanne moos, cnn.

bust is scheduled to be enshrined in the state capitol alongside governors, mark twain and walter cronkitealter reporting on this? >> he's actually a very good person. i'm sure he will be just fine. >> reporter: while rush is facing the music, someone was actually listening to the music playing ever so low during rush's rant. >> what does it say bl the college cosaid. >> that's peter gabrielle's song "sledgehammer." he doesn't want rush using it anymore, even if the music video does feature a sperm. jeanne moos, cnn. >> jane, you ig norcht slut, right? >> reporter: new york. >>> it is the morning after super tuesday. the voets are in, but the jury sure is still out. so mitt romney captures six states, claiming the mathematical victory. and nearly snagging the biggest prize, ohio. this morning romney claimed -- but he is amassing delegates, wait of -- clearly this race has a long way to go. to get an idea of where it may be going, we turn to our political editor paul steinhauser. he's in the capital of ohio. so, paul, romney barely won. does that make a difference? >> it does. >> you can se

the hall of famous missourians at the state capital, alongside governors and mark twain and walter cronkite right? >> he's actually a very good person. i'm sure he will be just fine. >> reporter: while rush is facing the music, someone was actually listening to the music, playing ever so low during rush's rant -- ♪ >> what does it say about the college coed susan fluke -- >> reporter: that's peter gabriel's song "sledgehammer." and he doesn't want rush using it anymore, etch if the music video does feature a sperm. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> don't forget to tell us what you think about today's if the talk back" question. what does a penny mean to you? when the price goes down a couple of cents or even a fraction of a cent, does it even matter? are pennies even worth carrying around anymore? jean says, the penny is useless, back in the old days, pennies could actually buy things. what's this? [ male announcer ] quaker oatmeal squares have 46 grams of whole grains... mmmm. ...and a touch of sweetness. you'll be delighted to discover how good they taste. get your free sample of quaker oatm

everyone is doing the same thing at the same time as we were in the 1960's, all watching walter cronkiteto tell us what the day's news was. >> to clarify it would check out start talk radio. >> start talk radio.net. thank you for that. >> i will try to make this as brief as i can. i'm one of the lost generation you just spoke about. i'm 32 and i will be 33 this fall. i live next to vandenberg air force base with myself and my father the editor-in-chief of the local newspaper and watch the shuttle happening in my town. i have an 8-year-old daughter who sings along with your voice and others talking about it. [applause] >> a series of creative youtube videos which takes publicly available clips. it's very creative and they are hugely popular. .. if it's the sun going said it would in 5 million years. if we stay here we are doomed, and as far as we know, we are at. >> this is the point was made by stephen hawking that we have to be a multi plant species otherwise we are doomed because something could happen, an asteroid or what have you. here is my rebuttal to that if i may. >> may i finish