Cronkite on What Broadcast News Has Become cnn.com

"The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed." Walter Cronkite in his 1996 memoir, "A Reporter's Life."

"The misfortune with broadcasting today is that all -- even including your network, which is dedicated to the news -- do not take enough time to give us all of the facts and the background." Cronkite in a 2005 interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

Both quotes from CNN.com

—Chuck Ross