The New Media Journal | ‘Cronkiting’ North Korea Won’t Work This Time by Resa LaRu Kirkland: "You know the man on the right. He’s hard to miss with his ridiculous hair and Dr. Evil wardrobe. But do you recognize the man on the left? Most of you probably don’t. Allow me to give you a refresher.
After we won the Tet Offensive in 1968, the Hippy Press here in America sank to new depths. Walter Cronkite, “the most trusted man in America,” made a perverse choice.
He looked directly into the camera and lied through his “most trusted” teeth.
He told America that after what happened at Tet, surely the war was now lost.
So what happened at Tet? This 1995 interview by Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Young of North Vietnamese Col. Bui Tin tells us pretty clearly:"
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