in the walter cronkite days, in the walter cronkite days, there were called cronkite and company. they were all reporters. somebody in the anchor chair should be a real reporter, and scott is the most experience to ever work in cbs news. he was 60 years old before he came in. he covered every imaginable story. twice as much as any anchor who ever anchored. i am talking about all the way back. not even close. he was not smooth and polished. this is not someone who has ever anchored a broadcast before. that was not what mattered. he was going to make sure on a daily basis that when those stories come in, that they are accurate, fair, well-reported, well-told. that is a job that is important in every newsroom. it has to be done by one or two people. i think the result shows. it is the same philosophy. we do the news well. we cover what is important. we make it as interesting as we can. we cut the fluff out of it. the audience will come. they will learn something about something important that they care about and they will come back for more. a year, four months later, the cbs evening

walter cronkite served as the evening news anger for nearly 20 -- >> good evening, everyone. the cronkite school has a special relationship with cbs news. walter cronkite served as the evening news anger for nearly 20 years becoming known as the most trusted man in america for his objective, straightforward reporting. he was the face of cbs. three years after he stepped down from the news anger desk, the school was named in is honored. that grew over the next 25 years. today three years after his passing, he continues to be our guiding light. it is truly a special honor to have jeff fager with us tonight to talk about the traditional values of journalism and how those values remain the cornerstone of cbs news today in our digital age. he became the chairman and february 2011. cbs news won a peabody award under his leadership and was the only network to grow its audience. he also has relaunched cbs this morning with a focus on a harder news. he has served as executive producer of 60 minutes giving it a new graphical again emphasizing more timeless stories. he also grew the show

>> the walter cronkite school of journalism in mass communication is predominantly female. at that, how can we have a good, successful fund rai-rai we said, we can make a calendar pap great hit with everyone at the school. >> my understanding is that one joey post who happens to be right there -- >> no way! >> part of this calendar. is that true? >> joey post is a huge supporter of the calendar. he's been vital to our operations. >> what month is joey post? joey post has a month? >> a month in our hearts. >> ah! >> not actually going to be featured in the calendar? >> not yet. >> when will these men be revealed? >> the calendar will be available on november 30th at our launch party, and at that point, everyone will be revealed, and you can see exactly who's in the calendar. >> i'm buying a calendar, and i'm gluing joey post's face on every month! mr. january, mr. february. mr. march. >> we got your back. >> yeah, we do. >> we gotcha. >>> check this out. the people brought some, maybe some irrigation tubes or drainage piping. couldn't quite fit in the van. so they said, they

in this new spirit of full disclosure i'm going to confess i once voted for walter cronkite, but i'mot saying when. basement. >> schieffer: some of our stations are leaving us now, but for most of you we'll be back with more on what's going to happen on tuesday. we'll have a panel of top experts. we'll go through the battleground state, ,,,,,,,,,,

this is walter cronkite speaking to you from cbs television election headquarters, here in new york city. >> reporter: it wasn't just the first coast-to-coast broadcast of a presidential election and walter cronkite's first time anchoring on election night. it was the first time a computer was used to project the winner. >> this is the face of a univay. reporter: laughable now, ground-breaking then. >> univac, can you tell us what your prediction is now on the basis of the returns we've had so far? i don't know. i think that univac is an honest machine, a good deal more honest than a lot of commentators working. he doesn't think he has enough to tell us anything about. >> reporter: but the computer did have something to say. with not even 3.5 million votes counted, he predicted 100-to-1 odds of an eisenhower victory in a landslide so huge it seemed impossible given what had been thought to be a close race. the results were with held for several hours. cbs and the machine's makers fearing humiliation. but univac was right. the war between the statheads and the pundits had begun. fast forw

every night with walter cronkite going to watch these homeowners be taken out on stretchers yes now one of the advisors and the financier's of the conservative party of which david cameron and george osborne are members is crispin o'day the financier chris benoit a david cameron is not a leader doesn't understand power and doesn't use it how to use it he said well look at this financial collapse what you should do with this he says we have got to get the banks working again that means the end of bashing the bankers if there is no credit growth there is no economic growth the last time we were in a depression was the one nine hundred thirty s. and what got us that was cheap money we need a zero interest rate and the housing boom only explain why this guy. kristie o.d.u. whatever is cooking is crazy that must be a slave name or something that depth is bliss parents couldn't name but the problem is that people don't understand you can have a bubble in sovereign debt because interest rates can't go below zero or so the theory goes and yet six countries in europe right now are offering bonds

walter cronkite served as the evening news anger for nearly 20 years becoming known as the most trusted man in america for his >> good evening, everyone. the cronkite school has a special relationship with cbs news. walter cronkite served as the evening news anger for nearly 20 years becoming known as the most trusted man in america for his objective, straightforward reporting. he was the face of cbs. three years after he stepped down from the news anger desk, the school was named in is honored. that grew over the next 25 years. today three years after his passing, he continues to be our guiding light. it is truly a special honor to have jeff fager with us tonight to talk about the traditional values of journalism and how those values remain the cornerstone of cbs news today in our digital age. he became the chairman and february 2011. cbs news won a peabody award under his leadership and was the only network to grow its audience. he also has relaunched cbs this morning with a focus on a harder news. he has served as executive producer of 60 minutes giving it a new graphical again empha

walter cronkite the cronkite school has a special relationship with cbs news. news anger for nearly 20 years becoming known as the most trusted man in america for his objective, straightforward reporting. he was the face of cbs. three years after he stepped down from the news anger desk, -- anchor desk, the school was named in is honored. that grew over the next 25 years. today three years after his passing, he continues to be our guiding light. it is truly a special honor to have jeff fager with us tonight to talk about the traditional values of journalism and how those values remain the cornerstone of cbs news today in our digital age. he became the chairman and february 2011. cbs news won a peabody award under his leadership and was the only network to grow its audience. he also has relaunched cbs this morning with a focus on a harder news. he has served as executive producer of 60 minutes giving it a new graphical again emphasizing more timeless stories. he also grew the show's online presence by revamping 60 minutes.com and launching the ipad app. under hi

and cbs news chairman on the future of network tv news at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. in about 45 minutes, we will preview of some of the cases coming up in the supreme court. at 8:30 eastern,

bush, bill and hillary clinton, walter cronkite, sean hannity, charles, larry king, barack obama, kevinudd, mike wallace, barbara walters, and oprah winfrey, and he can be awarded the prize of the damnest name dropper in utah. [laughter] the other working for more than 20 years. he's also -- he was also a member of the safe of the utah state archives and served as director for 14 of the years. he was an an archivist in the museum society, published articles in sunstone, exponent to dialogue, and the journal, and as well as the encyclopedia of mormonism. we'll begin today with our author, john turner. >> thank you, lloyd, and, thank you, all, for coming. i thought i'd take a little bit of time and tell you a couple stories from my biography, and i think i'll just say a few things about how i got interested in the project. i didn't know all that much about mormonism or mormon history five years ago, but a few things gave me the desire to explore the mormon path, and as i started to do so, it did not take me long to concentrate interests on brigham young, and he was a man i quickly learned

bush, bill and hillary clinton, walter cronkite, sean hannity, charlton heston, henry kissinger, barack obama, kevin redden, mike wallace, barbara walters and oprah winfrey. he can be awarded the prize of the damnedest name dropper in utah. [laughter] our weather panelists is jeff johnson who is retired from the lds church historical department where he worked for more than 20 years. he was also a member of the staff at the utah state archives and served as director for 14 of those years. he was an archivist at the cherokee national history society. he has published historical articles and an exponent to dialogue and journal. as well as the encyclopedia of mormonism. we will begin today with our illustrious author, john turner. >> thank you floyd and thank all of you for coming. i thought i would take a little bit of time and tell you a couple of stories from my biography of brigham young. and i think i will just say a few things about how i got interested in the project. i didn't know all that much about mormonism or mormon history five years ago but a few things gave me a desire to ex

don produced the news with walter cronkite. you cover any story you believe it is important and you make it interesting. it is on the reporter. it is not about, i will avoid that story because the audience does not want it. our numbers may go down. or, the younger demographic will not like it. that bothers me anymore. -- even more. you want to do stories anybody wants, every age group. if you make it interesting, and i love it when somebody says, i watched "60 minutes" on sunday and i did not expect i would like that story. you sucked me right in. we have a real benefit to be able to offer three very different alternatives. we can do a story about the president followed by a story about a writer, followed by a story about a flood or an adventure in some far off place that mixes well with what we have done earlier. if you did not like that, you might like that. we try to get you to stay around. we work really hard at that process. it is part of our tradition. it is 45 years of "60 minutes." the way we do it has changed very litt

in my point of view, we have to see people like walter cronkite, real reporters, what we are seeing now is a place to go to news that is imposed. -- is huffington post. they got bought out, and now twitter is the big thing. there will be something else when twitter gets bought out. nobody in san diego is even talking about it. san and>> do not touch that. it's real scary. >> we did a big story and put it into san diego magazine. an example of using our collaborative partners to put that out. you could not comment on an edward murrow post in the past. you are right. we need better, stronger her, more interesting coverage of these institutions of these big changes of these scandals. you cannot pick and choose an outrage and think that is the whole thing. twitter is not delivering the information. sources like me and others who are providing a way to organize the information differently. do not think of twitter as 140 characters of information. think of as an invitation to get deeper into a subject. it is allowing people to connect and share information extremely well. >> i am curious reth

in my point of view, we have to see people like walter cronkite, real reporters, what we are seeing now is a place to go to news that is imposed. they got bought out, and now twitter is the big thing. there will be something else when twitter gets bought out. nobody in san diego is even talking about it. >> do not touch that. >> it is a real scary. >> that is fair. we did a poll in a magazine. you could not comment on the posts in the past, but now you do have an interaction with reporters that is exciting. but you are right. we need better, stronger, more interesting coverage of these institutions, of these big changes, and of these scandals. if you it's become part of all of our very knack cue lar which we're not being able to comment on an edward that wouldn't have been the case. so i think it had an enormous impact. i think it shows what an exciting time it is. they may have trained people to use journalistic techniques and there is some reporting that happens but i think we are at a moment where we're asking ourselves is journalism unbuy ased versus having a point of you you're try

in this new spirit of full disclosure i'm going to confess i once voted for walter cronkite, but i'mot saying when. basement. >> schieffer: some of our stations are leaving us now, but for most of you we'll be back with more on what's going to happen on tuesday. we'll have a panel of top experts. we'll go through the battleground state, >> schieffer: welcome back to "face the nation." for in in-depth analysis we will turn to our second panel. these are pollsters and political experts. leslie sanchez is a republican strategist. she runs the impacto group. stu rothenberg is one of the most respected political analysts in the land. he puts out the rothenberg political reports. anthony salvanto is the cbs news political director. he's the director of elections. anna greenberg is a senior vice president of the democratic polling firm greenberg, quinlan, and roster upon and last but not least our old friend larry sabato, the political guru of the university of virginia center for politics. stewart, let me talk to you. and you i talked last week. >> we did. >> schieffer: you said, don't loo

murrow and walter cronkite, you know, real reporter reporters, what we are seeing now is please to goews is "huffington post." but now they got bought out so now that's dumbed down. so now twitter is the big thing. then something else when twitter gets bought out. so how do you see san diego responding to the really big stories like $1.2 billion grabber of money, and nobody in san diego news wise is even talking about it. >> i don't think that's fair. we did a poll, the big story, put in sending a magazine. is also in san diego on nbc. that was an example of using our different collaborative partnership of that. you couldn't comment on an edward r. murrow posts in the past. negative interaction with reporters which i think is unprecedented and exciting. but you're right, i mean, we need better, stronger, more interesting coverage of these institutions, of these big changes and of these scandals. it's just that it's, you know, you can't just pick and choose an outrageous thing that's characteristic of the whole thing. now look, twitter is not delivering the information. twitter is sour

in my point of view, we have to see people like walter cronkite, real reporters, what we are seeing now is a place to go to news that is imposed. they got caught out, and now twitter is the big thing. there will be something else when twitter despot out. -- gets bought out. nobody in san diego is even talking about it. >> do not touch that. >> it is a real scary. >> that is fair. a magazine.ll in the magazin you could not comment on the posts in the past, but now you do have an interaction with reporters that is exciting. but you are right. we need better, stronger, more interesting coverage of these institutions, of these big changes, and of these scandals. you cannot pick and choose in outrage. quitter is not delivering the information. do not think of it as 140 characters as information. think of it as 140 characters to invite people to get deeper into a subjects. every tweet has a link. it spreads a lot faster than it would have in the past. >> question to your left. >> hello. i am curious what you think occupy wall street's tactics have changed media about inequality, income distri

he spoke to students at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. in an hour, a look at education policy and school corporation -- school choice. >> more on the presidential campaign with president obama's reelection campaign manager. he spoke at an event >> you have been in montana. >> yes, drinking beer. >> what else did you do? >> i watched football, saw some friends, i did an amazing thing called sleeping. i have never done before. it was great. and then i'm going back tomorrow. for thanksgiving and then we leave for a month in italy on saturday. >> they love you on battleground radio but this is the first time you have done an on-camera interview. >> it seems like a bad idea at the time. look, we had amazing on their people -- on air people. my language did not seem to fit for television during the campaign. >> let's plan gen. when did this race become unwinnable for mitt romney? >> i am not sure when that moment was. when i thought we were going to win was a few days before when the early voting numbers look good for us. >> you thought it long

he spoke to students at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> in a few moments, more about the election with president obama's campaign manager. in an hour, a look at education policy and school choice. after that, a discussion on the evolution of facebook. later, a forum on how demint could solve the world's problems. -- gaming could solve the world's problems. >> on washington journal tomorrow morning -- we preview some of the cases coming up in the supreme court with david savage of the los angeles times. then, a guest from the institute of policy studies will take your questions and comments about the fact of military deployments. then a guest to discuss his "washington monthly" article about the energy bill. live on c-span every day at 7:30 a.m. eastern. >> there are many people who might even take issue with grant at saving the union during the civil war. didn't lincoln do that? he did. i am not going to say grant was the only person who saved the union. but he was the commanding general of the army that put lincoln's policies into effect. he w