President Obama Honors Walter Cronkite
President Obama traveled to New York today to speak at a memorial service held for veteran CBS anchor, Walter Cronkite.
Other speakers at the Lincoln Center event included President Bill Clinton, Katie Couric and Tom Brokaw.
“We also remember and celebrate the journalism that Walter practiced — a standard of honesty and integrity and responsibility to which so many of you have committed your careers,” said Obama. “It’s a standard that’s a little bit harder to find today. We know that this is a difficult time for journalism. Even as appetites for news and information grow, newsrooms are closing. Despite the big stories of our era, serious journalists find themselves all too often without a beat. Just as the news cycle has shrunk, so has the bottom line.”
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