{"id":45810,"date":"2025-12-30T19:55:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=45810"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:55:56","slug":"walter-cronkite-on-freedom-of-the-press-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/walter-cronkite-on-freedom-of-the-press-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Cronkite on freedom of the press"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-108.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70550\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cronkite in 1983<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cFREEDOM OF THE PRESS IS NOT JUST IMPORTANT TO DEMOCRACY, IT IS DEMOCRACY.\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Walter Cronkite<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 \u2013 July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as \u201cthe most trusted man in America\u201d after being so named in an opinion poll.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Cronkite\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cronkite in 1983 \u201cFREEDOM OF THE PRESS IS NOT JUST IMPORTANT TO DEMOCRACY, IT IS DEMOCRACY.\u201d&nbsp; \u2013 Walter Cronkite Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 \u2013 July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. During the&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/walter-cronkite-on-freedom-of-the-press-2\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45810"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45811,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45810\/revisions\/45811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}