Description
Today most Americans turn to news sources aligned with their political beliefs. But in the 1960s and 70s many Americans, Democrats and Republicans, tuned in to Walter Cronkite and the CBS Evening News because they trusted Cronkite to provide them with an unbiased report of the news. Cronkite first came to prominence as a war correspondent for UPI in World War II reporting from the battlefields of North Africa and western Europe. Beginning with Harry Truman, he knew and generally respected the Presidents, though his coverage of Watergate helped convince the American people and ultimately Richard Nixon himself that he should resign. He covered the US space program, the Vietnam war, civil rights and assassinations and won Emmy awards in the process. He witnessed news first-hand, and with his generally unbiased coverage of the news became known as “The most trusted man in America.”
