The second generation of TV journalists were brought up with news broadcasting. They only knew television journalism. They learned journalism from a box. You have to present a complicated, diverse nation and world in 22 minutes. It can't be done.
Television news needs to give the headlines so that people can refer to their newspapers.
There are alleged 'sources' of news that are nothing but rumor mills. There is no way to determine the source of a story on the Internet. Born in St. Joseph, Mo., Cronkite began his journalism career as a correspondent for the Houston Post while still in high school. He joined United Press in 1937, and CBS News in 1950. During his more than 60 years in journalism, Cronkite covered some of the century's most historic events.