Cronkite warns quest media profits threatens freedom

Warning that the pressures by media companies to generate ever-greater profits are threatening freedom, former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite also says today's journalists face greater challenges than those of his generation. In this Associated Press news article from yesterday, the man a major poll once named the "most trusted figure" in American public life, Cronkite claims that journalists can no longer count on their employers to provide the necessary resources "to expose truths that powerful politicians and special interests often did not want exposed."