At no time did Cronkite express opposition to the war. He merely described what he saw and what people on the ground had said to him.
Tags: CBS, Mark Bowden, New York Times, Vietnam, Walter Cronkite
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At CBS, an honest mistake or something more?
May 19, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: journalism.When the CBS News show “48 Hours” aired a segment a couple of weeks ago about a murder in Columbia, Mo., it altered a picture of the front page of the Columbia Daily Tribune the show used as a graphic. CBS has acknowledged the mistake, although it has not explained very well how it happened. But there is evidence CBS still doesn’t understand the seriousness of its action — particularly given the conclusion the show drew about the case.
CBS and the Bush National Guard memos
May 15, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: journalism.The big media story of the week was a report of an internal investigation that CBS News conducted on a story aired in September concerning George W. Bush’s service in the National Guard in the 1970s.
Tags: CBS, Dan Rather, George W. Bush