I see that Walter Cronkite has a frail grasp on historical reality:

In a keynote address at Columbia University, Cronkite said today's journalists face greater challenges than those from his generation. No longer could journalists count on their employers to provide the necessary resources, he said, "to expose truths that powerful politicians and special interests often did not want exposed."

Instead, he said, "they face rounds and rounds of job cuts and cost cuts that require them to do ever more with ever less."

Oh please. When was there ever a "golden age" of journalism that wasn't concerned with making money? Cronkite confuses the pre-cable, pre-internet era of virtually guaranteed profit for a small number of media outlets with history. Not to mention that during the "golden age of radio" the Fatty Arbuckle case generated print the same way Anna Nicole Smith now generates film.

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