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Debunking the Walter Cronkite “That’s the Way It Is” Media Myth

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 12 2026

Another downsizing at The Washington Post has triggered predictable lamentations and nostalgic commentaries for days past when Americans actually trusted the mainstream media. Those lamentations typically cast it as a loss of “journalistic grandeur” attributable to the sterile corporatism of Post owner Jeff Bezos, which in turn echo decades of invocation of Walter Cronkite, as if his name alone secures the image they wish to conjure. “And that’s the way it is,” we were lectured, with Cronkite lionized as “The Most Trusted Man in America”…

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