Couric Gets Thumbs Up From Cronkite

By Brian 

Walter Cronkite‘s assessment of Katie Couric:

“I think she is doing a great job.”

According to the Baltimore Sun, “he described the changes to his former news program, which include longer magazine-type segments and citizen commentaries, as ‘somewhat revolutionary.’

After pausing for several seconds, he said: ‘I hope that the daring new presentation, I guess, is successful, as to me, they deserve to be.’

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