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To: Ron who wrote (116589)	7/26/2009 12:53:23 PM
From: KonKilo	Respond to of 542571

Superb piece. To appreciate how special Cronkite’s achievements were, consider our recent past. As the Bush administration hyped Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent W.M.D. and nonexistent link to 9/11, The Times and The Post too often enabled the fictions... At the networks, Cronkite’s heirs were not even practicing journalism. They invited administration propagandists to trumpet their tales of imminent mushroom clouds with impunity... What Halberstam labeled the “nice genteel chumminess” between potentates like McNamara and the Beltway press establishment...remains intact... The bigger problem is the persistence of that clubby culture Halberstam described, no matter which party is in power... ...at a time of epic corruption in the most powerful precincts in Washington, Cronkite was not at the salons and not in the tank.