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Didn’t Trust Cronkite?

July 22, 2009

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Slate’s Jack Shafer is collecting “reasons for Cronkitian distrust” to add to his own — “He sailed. He was avuncular. He had a beer gut. He inspired John Waters to grow a moustache (I think!). And he was way too into the space program for a grown man.”

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Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.