The mythical “Cronkite Moment” — that heady occasion in 1968 when an editorial comment by CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite purportedly altered the course of the war in Vietnam — lives on as an irresistible parable about the power of the news media.
The parable is timeless and often invoked — most recently in a commentary posted yesterday at the online sports site, Bleacher Report.
The commentary declared:
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