John Tedesco

I hope Billy Calzada took his Dramamine for this sweet video of air show pilots doing their thing.

Here’s what I remember about Walter Cronkite: In this interview with David Letterman after 9/11, Cronkite talked about the importance of the media reporting on the government’s planned invasion of Afghanistan.

Everyone talks about the public’s right to know, but Cronkite took it a step further by saying: “We have a duty to be kept informed.”

To make his point, he talked about German civilians who, at the end of World War II, expressed shock at the concentration camps in their own backyard:

They didn’t know what was going on behind those walls. Well, I can believe some of them may not have known. Maybe many of them didn’t know. But they were just as guilty as the Nazis themselves for what happened because they applauded when Hitler shut down their newspapers and shut down their radio and they said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government.’ They became guilty when they did that. We have to know, as a duty.