this is walter cronkite.ight. >> remember that lyndon johnson is president of the united states in 1968, and no president until donald trump has ever consumed as much news as lyndon johnson did. in what some considered a sacrilege, he had three tvs installed in the oval office along with two teletype machines from the ap and up wire services. both of them clanked away inside a soundproof box in the oval office. and in a story that may combine folklore and exact quotes, after hearing cronkite's remarks from night, the president said some version of if i've lost cronkite, i've lost middle america. of course 50 years ago tonight 1968 was just getting started. both martin luther king jr. and bobby kennedy were assassinated in a matter of months. lyndon johnson decided not to run for reelection, and the war in vietnam dragged on for another seven years. that is our broadcast for this tuesday evening. thank you so very much for being here with us and good night from nbc headquarters here in new york. >>> this morni

rushing back to my dormitory to see walter cronkite's last broadcast. that was a time when the country had a fairly broad set of objective facts that we could agree on. people had differing opinions about what to do with that, but at least we could agree on the basic facts. then we moved to a model where we had different cable stations, and people would tune in to the station that was more reflective of their views. now, information has been so democratized that you can live in a particular information bubble online. i used to say that most young people get their news from facebook. now you can actually say most people. most americans get their news from facebook. it is a revelation when i tell constituents that when they go to their facebook page and i go to mine, and we see those stories that pop up below, they are not the same stories. i think people are under the impression we are seeing the same thing when we go on our facebook page. we are not. one of the things that was hammered home to me as we began

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coming from cronkite, the words came as a shocker.st trusted man in america delivering a verdict on a conflict the united states government was saying was winnable. president lyndon johnson knew its power. if i've lost cronkite, he said, clicking off the tv, i've lost middle america. i was wondering this weekend if people in the media would or could issue such a verdict on the killing fields that are now our schools. i say that because the media, especially reporters for the local tv stations are the people who cover such horrors up close and personal, just as cronkite earned his credibilities on wire service report in world war ii, it's the local news reporter who goes door to door, interviewing the schoolmates and parents of those killed by today's home front gun fire. i know that news reporters are not supposed to take sides politically. but truly, is there another side to the argument of whether an 18-year-old in any emotional state should have access to an ar-15, a weapon perfect for spraying human lives away in school corridors.

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gar: yes, they were very happy and anxious to do it, but i arranged the meeting with cronkite. had to bring cronkite to cambridge, mass and do it in a way that would not be followed and traced. one of the friends offer their living room for a television interview and then one of the people, one of the graduate students took cronkite and his team around cambridge from the airport, from boston to cambridge, making sure they were not followed and finally bringing him to this friend's house where the interview took place. amy: the code, mr. boston, the lavender hill mob, talk about how you came up with these. gar: mr. boston was spontaneous. a name that i kind of picked out of the air for reasons that i have no idea why i did that. the lavender hill mob was something that came later as we looked back on it in a way that this very small group of people tried to help dan get a serious distribution strategy going. amy: so, can you talk about why you decided to come forward now? during this period, this -- the first anniversary of the inauguration of president trump. is that playing a

there was a time in my life when walter cronkite reported the news. you might not agree with him, you knew it was the truth. and then along came dan rather. and then this is where we are today. thank you. >> guest: dan rather, interestingly enough, is still active andll has become very anti-trump, so he's obviously more in opinion mode now. look, there was a time when, you know, huntley, brinkley, walter cronkite had a lot of respect, most americans got their news from the three network newscasts. that time is long gone. social media, the internet, cable news, it's a much more fractured and polarized media universe, and that is created more punditry, analysis. thesi days of cronkite, and i kw him and had great respect for him, but they're not coming back. >> host: as far as your own show and profession, how do you personally keep editorial -- >> guest: i have complete independence. if i make a mistake, it's on me. we all make mistakes, and i try to keep that in mind. and people sometimes think -- and i got this when i've worked for other news organiza

edward r rose that he would not do it that it was an infomercial and walter cronkite said sign me up. [laughter] but if you have seen the room talked about wheeling and dealing politics and it wasn't very pretty then everybody darted to think so walter cronkite was teaching politicians how to look good on tv on the side. sam rayburn took his course, john kennedy took his course. nixon did not. [laughter] >> as long as the categories 52, the republican convention is organized and run by a then 20-year-old woman named just being good the first to be organized and led by a woman. she is there after every republican convention 1952 through the year 2000 when she retires. >> amazing. [inaudible] >> truman is ranked very high as president and since he left 25% approval rating the fact that to air is truman and so now we honor him so greatly but in the 1948 elections that was the weird one for truman because strom thurmond had the dixiecrat party and henry wallace that we can be friends with russia creating the progressive parties of the democratic party is split and people thought do we cou

jones twenty years ago oust jones was the fringe guy in media now everet there's no more walter cronkite there's no more mainstream media anchorperson isn't even brian williams the last of the tribe was obliterated now you have rachel maddow everyone a mainstream media katie couric whoever they're all truly can jump out shows alex jones is the gold standard in american news and the crazier the conspiracy theories from maddow becomes the more she sells now on alex jones as colloidal silver and guardian and account sort of stuff but on her show it's just as wacky sort of opioids and by aggro and you know erectile dysfunction has been she's been shown that the goop which is the product of that shiksa. opposite of oh gosh i did not have sorry but she's got goop which is the same stuff in it that they sell over at info wars and erectile dysfunction gosh you know if only they just were able to cure baldness like they were.

basically we are in his own talking about the walter cronkite culture, people honestly who come to festivals or carry tote bags but they all say they want that. but the readings would be higher. and to admit because we are human beings and the fallen world rely conflict. and then we let the people watch. and running away with the culture so we don't talk a lot about followership but we should because in a democratic political culture, if it didn't work they would not be doing it. because their value is reelection. >> media candidates and people. then they tell people to vote that way. >> and then if you find out who your people are to mobilize them to win the election that is the business of politics. to say that would divide the country. nobody pays you to say i want to make a point but i don't care who wins. >> and there is one former politician but the senator back in the era when people say there was still civility. if you don't mind to shout out. [applause] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> thank you. [applause] but i also want you to tell of how we get out of this. [in

me and their penthouse as a younger kid my first book and low and behold in a tuxedo was walter cronkite. i kept an eye out and when he got to me he said that was a wonderful time we had sailing together. he thought it was david's son. he always put in a position to say you know. i wa was onstage recently with a very prominent person interviewing him and he kept asking me as you wrote about grant, the hamilton point how many of you have someone walk up and they are convinced that you are some other person? i have one which was phil donahue. nobody cared when the show went off the air if i did because of the great treatment. >> baker ran for the attorney general and 78 and he lost. he was on his way out to the ranch and filling up his truck with gas and a boy walks up to him and says has anybody told you you look a lot like jimmy baker. he says yes, sometimes. he said doesn't that just piss you off? [laughter] we will never be by this terrific panel. [applause] [inaudible conversations] .. >> many other authors are here. later marches the virginia festival of the book in charlottesville.

that's not nearly what it used to be when walter cronkite and huntley and brinkley were doing it, whereonly source of news. because, you know, what you say is absolutely valid. people are getting their news all day long, so i think the 6:30 news now sort of gives you further insight into the news as opposed to just reporting the news. and i think they do well. they do better in times of crises. obviously during the hurricanes, people want to see what's going on. but now with the advent of these big cable news networks, and also with all that you get online, they become a bit less important, but 23 pillion people are still a lot of people. david: ok. so you have recently had your head of your cbs evening news show go to "60 minutes." do you have any announcements you want to make today on the who the replacement is? leslie: nope, we have an acting person doing the job, and we're talking about what we can do for the future, but we have no announcements. david: you don't want anybody -- leslie: we're not making news today, no matter what you say. david: ok. you wouldn't consider having a p

. >> caller: i am 84 years old there was a time in my life when walter cronkite you might not agree with him but then along came dan rather and this is where we are today. >> dan rather is still active and very anti- trump and is in an opinion about so we do have a lot of respect for him getting the news from the network newscast. cable news it is more fractured and polarized that has created a lot more niches for opinion and the pundits and they have a great respect for them but they are not coming back. >> audi you keep editorial controls? >> i can put on the air to say what i want and if i make a mistake it is on me. i try to keep that in mind. so i got this from other organizations because i am a media critic because too often i have to deal with colleagues who make a mistake. . . . . i think in the end that adds to your credibility. what is the format and when is it on. it should be on daily. we take a look at sports controversies hollywood. we do it with a balanced panel. we've a lot of fun doing it. i did this version. when i criticize the mainstream media i am a product of the me

her ground i got to go i got to just be a hero guys we've run out of time i certainly miss walter cronkite many thanks to my guests to new york and in los angeles and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at our d.c. unix times and remember. the we have a great team but we need to strengthen before the free phone calls and you're better than a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that winning spirit to the r.c.t. . recently i've had a lot of practice on. i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last will come from the throat or as we. know of an old joke i was only kidding here i called. my life dr. no i left left left more or less ok stop that's really good. in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decade's long debt. studying so hard it requires trust to. go through humiliation to enter an elite society. and parching to death sometimes quite literally. want ot

carville in louisiana, you happy crime high school in arizona, and they awarded katie couric the cronkiterd for asking sarah palin what newspapers that she reads. [laughs] guest: which is fine. more power to katie couric for asking the question. but it is amazing how flippant journalism has become. the quality of the journalists is inversely proportional to the schism he fights against or so the more ridiculous the subject and the investigation, the more flippant it has become. you have entrusted citizens out there, like allison mosk omar mateen, who spent nine months -- allison mosk, on my team, who someone who met with , whodent obama many times foments about activity on the ground, and crickets from the media. with their heads, they say, thro okies in prison. anchorou have and a who asks "what newspaper do you read?" it is about truth of power in the digital age and the sort of moral courage. host: james o'keefe, founder and president of project veritas and author of "american pravda: my fight for truth in the era of fake news," thank you for joining us today. coming up next, we will b

when i grew up cronkite, brinkley and national newspapers newspapers. if something had been in the course of the day i believe that walter cronkite would tell me at 6:30 on the news. there is such an plethora of ways in which people particularly young people now get information that they accept as true through less-than-perfect filters and i think it's time that we all book with a more skeptical eye at the information that is pushed at us that we chose to believe. far too many people, and i think all of us have her sponsor validity to this. far too many people have great skepticism of what their government is doing and are suspicious of government power. far too many people when certain politicians and i'm not mentioning any names accepts what he said about the fbi or the department of justice. so in these efforts that include efforts by russian platforms to inject themselves into the information marketplace around her politics we need to be more more -- of what we are hearing and seeing. >> it's a perfect illustration of this example. marshall has done

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jones twenty years ago ouster owens was the fringe guy in media now everet there's no more walter cronkite there's no more mainstream media anchorperson isn't even brian williams the last of the tribe was obliterated now you have rachel maddow everyone of mainstream media katie couric and whoever they're all trying to catch up to challenge alex jones is the gold standard in american news and the crazier the conspiracy theories from maddow becomes the more she sells now on alex jones of colloidal silver and guardian and account sort of stuff but on her show it's just as wacky sort of opioids and by aggro and you know erectile dysfunction has been she's been shown that the goop which is the product of that shiksa. opposite of oh gosh i did not have sorry but she's got goop which is the same stuff in it that they sell over at info wars and erectile dysfunction gosh you know if only they just were able to cure baldness like they were trying to do originally i mean then we would need a d. woodley because we're just too good looking i saw a horrible video of donald trump apparently is i complete

people saying, you know, i think it was john saying if i've lost cronkite, i've lost the nation. you don't have that. you don't have that one voice or even that sort of one movement. whereas now the media seems to be broken up into clearly delineated fiefdoms of power trying to vie for access and the ear of the nation. i was wondering if the panel could speak to that in terms of the difference between the time period? >> elizabeth? >> well, one big difference is that as you say back then, there were three networks and they reached everybody. i think at 6:30 p.m., something like 90% of all tv sets in america would be on to three networks. and they tended to be -- because they had such a mass audience pretty middle of the road. there was an argument that they were left, but they were -- if they were left, they were still close to the center. there was no fox in those days. now it's more tribal now. you know? the fox and right-wing media is much more powerful obviously than it was then. so the media is more divided and more -- and more split than it was. there is more of a media to

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when i came to work at cbs in the days of walter cronkite the evening news drove the boat. because that's where the commercials were, that's where the largest audience was. the evening news which is a pretty good crowd., - in fact, on any given day, more than those cable hosts at night, who get all the attention, right? - and as long as that continues to be the case, we're gonna have an evening news. let me just say a word about jeff glor. he's a fine, young reporter. i am a great believer in promoting from within. somehow going out and getting people from outside the organization and bringing them in, somehow that doesn't always work out. - always hire from. - always hire from. - that's the way i like it. - that's the way i like it. - this is really something less about him, than it is more about it. which is to say, is, the institution of the 22-minute, after you take the commercials out, evening newscast, is that an institution healthy enough that it will persist? - i think it is. i think it is, it's certainly at cbs for a while. i mean, for a while, i don't mean for a c