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Originally Posted by Mark McM
Well, a lot of commentators have written about the importance of Cronkite's words on American opinion of the Vietnam war, so it wasn't nothing.
In any case, the point was that even during the Golden Age of television news reporting, sometimes the best news men made the story about their own thoughts and opinions, when they thought it appropriate.
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Although back then this was a very rare occurrence. Cronkite’s statement therefore had much more weight.
Did he change America’s opinion... ? Don’t think so but he made it okay for those ‘in middle America’ to voice their own doubts about our course there.