Way it was--not way if ought to be

Walter Leland Cronkite (1916-2009) died Friday at the age of 92 at his home in New York

The Beacon Journal’s Rich Helenfels in a sidebar calls Cronkite
“The man who told you the way it was, not the way it ought to be.”

Whether the quote is original or not, it describes Conkrite well.

If any of you out there aspire to those lofty heights, do your own reporter’s work to learn more:

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That’s the way it was

And here's a humorous addend:

Someone at the Chicago Tribune went crazy with the search-and-replace while writing Walter Cronkite's obituary—replacing every instance of "Cronkite" with "Mr. Cronkite.

"His last regularly scheduled assignment with CBS News was a 90-second radio segment called "Walter Mr. Cronkite's 20th Century."