I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

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Walter Cronkite was a 20th-century American broadcast journalist. Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Knowledge — The pursuit of learning, understanding, and intellectual growth

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