Walter Cronkite: Most Reporters Are Lefties

Memo to Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Al Franken, Eric Alterman and all the rest of you liberals out there who have lately been claiming that there's a conservative bias in the media.

Walter Cronkite, the founding father of the TV news age, has just admitted that the press is overwhelmingly liberal.

"I believe that most of us reporters are liberal," Cronkite confesses in his new gig as a King Features syndicated columnist.

In a rare burst of candor, the grand old man of CBS News explains that the press' left-wing bias is not necessarily deliberate, maintaining, "[It's] not because we consciously have chosen that particular color in the political spectrum."

"More likely," says America's most trusted newsman, "it is because most of us served our journalistic apprenticeships as reporters covering the seamier sides of our cities - the crimes, the tenement fires, the homeless and the hungry, the underclothed and undereducated."

Cronkite further explains:

"We reached our intellectual adulthood with daily close-ups of inequality in a nation that was founded on the commitment to equality for all.”

Maybe so.

Whether or not the CBS News icon is correct in his reasoning, the fact is, the media's most successful practitioner of the art of delivering news has finally admitted that conservative claims of media bias lo these many decades have been 100 percent on the mark.

As Walter Cronkite used to say at the end of his broadcast every night, "And that's the way it is."

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