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Monday, December 12, 2011

Chet Huntley foreshadows Barack Obama

Pioneering TV newscaster Chet Huntley didn't live long enough to see the rise of Barack Obama:
"Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here — not yet."
— Chet Huntley (1911-1974).

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