
Episode 15: : "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
America This Week
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Cold Up Walter Cronkite Is a Kind of God or Avatar of the Days When America All You Know Was Sensible
Walter Cronkite is a kind of god or avatar of the days when America all you know was sensible and listened to the Tiffany network. For them to turn on him and throw him overboard the guy who single-handedly ended the Vietnam War would be an amazing sort of pseudo ironic dismount. He briefly makes a serious point he says I think that they would be happier if they felt that the composition of prestigious journalistic institutions more closely reflected the full range of ideological attitudes in American public issues.
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