And That's The Way It Is.

Everything Is Being Compressed Into Tiny Tablets. You Take A Little Pill Of News Every Day-23 Minutes-and That's Supposed To Be Enough.

For How Many Thousands Of Years Now Have We Humans Been What We Insist On Calling "civilized?" And Yet, In Total Contradiction, We Also Persist In The Savage Belief That We Must Occasionally, At Least, Settle Our Arguments By Killing One Another.

We've Got A Great Percentage Of Our Population That, To Our Great Shame, Either Cannot Or, Equally Unfortunate, Will Not Read. And That Portion Of Our Public Is Growing. Those People Are Suckers For The Demagogue.

As Anchorman Of The Cbs Evening News, I Signed Off My Nightly Broadcasts For Nearly Two Decades With A Simple Statement: "and That's The Way It Is." To Me, That Encapsulates The Newsman's Highest Ideal: To Report The Facts As He Sees Them, Without Regard For The Consequences Or Controversy That May Ensue.

I've Gone From The Most Trusted Man In America To One Of The Most Debated.