walter cronkite in new york hears the teletype machines chattering and says, what is going on? i thought we were winning the war. the pentagon had been telling him that there was a light at the end of the tunnel. walter cronkite, who was a veteran of world war ii, as a correspondent, got his flak jacket and uniform out to go to vietnam to look at what is going on. you may be old enough to remember that february night in 1968 that walter cronkite told america we were losing the war. after that, lyndon johnson decided not to run again. one of the general lessons of vietnam was not to let television cameras on the battlefield. that is the story in that chapter, how reporters became much of the story. and finally, fallujah, a story which has not ended. when marines left in 2004, they do not think the city would fall 10 years later to forces related to al qaeda now called isis. that is a very quick overview of 230 years of military history. i left some wars out and could have chosen others. but i chose these battles because each was emblematic of something important in the nation's

who did walter cronkite interview -- john f. kennedy, martin luther king jr., lyndon johnson, bob dylan. >> don? >> dr. king. >> that's incorrect. >> dr. king. >> can i do it? >> you can do it anyway. >> kennedy. >> that is correct. >> oh, my god. >> number two. >> ha-ha. >> and he's done. >> oh, my. >> no more questions. >> it's a one-hour show, man. >> i thought we weren't going to be able to fill an hour. apparently not a problem. number two, which female news anchor served as a press aide to president nixon. >> chris, you pushed my hand out of the way. >> real name leila, we know her as diane sawyer. >> correct answer. >> oh, my god. >> john 14, 1952, dave garroway, became the first. >> chris. >> i can't believe you got the buzzer faster. >> today show is what you are thinking of my friend. >> that is correct. >> final. i know these. >> final question. was that dancing? was that your dancing? >> my pants are tight on this side. >> e lalaine from seinfeld. >> which american broadcaster was born in canada? >> peter jennings? >

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as a child, my education about civil rights came to a great degree from walter cronkite. that is what i saw on the news as it was taking place. but my question for . [applause] >> please be seated. well, good evening to all. my name

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. >> this is walter cronkite, in our newsroom.ife of president kennedy. >> just turn the mic on. i can't hear you, johnny. what do you want? you want me to move back a little bit. is it all right now? is this all right? ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce to you the chief cameraman. and assistant news director. bert, we have brought the people pretty much up to date. would you tell them exactly what you know as of this point? >> well, i was standing at the trade mart, waiting for his arrival there. all of a sudden we saw them approaching, they didn't slow down, as a matter of fact, they were going 70, 80 miles an hour past us. and then i jumped into a police car and went to parkland. >> these two men come in and one of them had a large machine gun and they were hollering for the cots and the stretcher and everything. >> what happened? >> then the president came in behind him and they took both of them back -- >> albert thomas, democrat of texas is standing outside the corridor of the emergency room said he has been tol

yet you never heard much about this in the press or the walter cronkites of the world and all that. they were out to lunch. so these comments about the rules of engagement, we've got to forget all of that. you don't need any rules of engagement. the average american, fighting women and women and all the people and all the elements of national power, they understand what's right and what isn't. you don't have to worry about that kind of thing. we found -- in 1965 alone, we fired 1 million artillery shells at south vietnam at the enemy. we killed 20 people by mistake. 20 friendlies. they were killed because a south vietnamese observer tried to fire in the blind instead of actually knowing where the enemy was. yet you didn't hear those kind of things. so combat is combat. it's tough. it's nasty. we ought to have a strategy that doesn't say too much about what we're going to do. because what we're going to do is different in every situation. the culture, climate, country, et cetera. and we're not -- we can't handle all these things in one policy, one lump, one kind of way of doing thing

walter cronkite used to lose money for cbs every year.ill paley didn't care because he had the host viewers, and he could make it all up feeding into, you know, beat the clock or whatever was next after the news. today if you're not making money, you're getting your staff cut, you're getting your salaries cut, you can't send foreign operations. even the best news organizations in america don't have nearly the foreign cover orage they once had. ap is a shadow of its former self in terms of its employees and where it covers. so it's -- and this is because the news has become a profit center, and it is driving down the quality of news. the pressure in newsrooms is enormous. it's not get it right anymore, it's get it first, and then we can fix it later in subsequent editions, and it is murderous. you used to work for politico, and you -- i know people, of course, this is washington. the pressure is so great, you may do four, five, six stories in a day. in the old days you used to do two stories in a week and get your byline out there, and tha

walter cronkite, the most respected man in the unit states used to lose money for cbs every year.ou're not making money, you're getting your staff cut, getting your salaries cut? even the best news organizations in america don't have nearly the foreign coverage they once had. a.p. is a shadow of its former self in terms of employees and where it covers. this is because the news has become a profit center and it's driving down the quality of news. it's not get it right anymore, get it first and we can fix it later in subsequent editions. you used to work for politico. i know people, of course, in washingt washington. you may do four or five stories in a day in the old story you'd do two in a week and that was a big deal and get your by line out there. i think it's not a different industry simply because there are terrible people who are reporters. i don't believe that. reporters are usually in it for the right reason. the pressure for them to do things for the wrong reason is enormous. it affected president bush, it affected president obama, president clinton. it may have started w