@txradioguy
"Honest" my big red ass! He was in bed with the Kennedy Klan,and was all for the war in VN when JFK got us involved. He only began to oppose it when we had a Republican President,and then he flat out lied about what was happening there.
That's certainly the common impression folks have of Cronkite,
@sneakypete I think he's been brought up here or elsewhere and yes, blamed, blamed in part for how that war went.
I don't know if other networks were any better, of course, back then, it was Huntley and Brinkley, John Chancellor (though, I'd have to check exact dates) Harry Reasoner, Roger Smith (??).
But yes, conventional thinking is Cronkite wasn't good in the most basic way I can think of it, hostile, bad. It would take some study.