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 Walter Cronkite During our peer presentations I specifically learned so much about Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. who was an American broadcast journalist who was the anchorman for CBS Evening News for 19 years.  I learned that Cronkite truly started his career from the bottom, and did not even have a college degree. Extensively covering WWI and many high-profile assassinations, Cronkite was a huge name for all of those reading and watching the news. A fun fact I learned was that the FBI has a file on every one, apparently, except Walter Cronkite, whose file has mysteriously never been found or created, and no one knows why. He was one of the most trusted voices in journalism of his day, and probably ours. Still respected for his work and research Cronkite is an amazing example of how to leave your legacy in the journalism world.

 Wars, the Press, and the Public The relationship between government and journalism is a very grey area. On one hand, the government relies heavily on journalism for the mass communication of news aiming other things, however, journalists often pose a threat to the governmental officials that are not doing their jobs.  In the journalism world, it is the utmost duty to expose the truth and governments try to limit how much these writers can really publish about the truth.  In my opinion, the relationship between the government and journalism, especially in the US, should be a cohesive partnership working for the betterment of society. The "watchdog role" of journalism applies to a lot when it comes to wars and wartime. For one, the main purpose of the watchdog role is to fact check and site all information form governmental sources or simply, just to increase the article's legitimacy. This is incredibly important during wartime's because the people need to be able to t

Shana Alexander an American journalist Shana Alexander was an American journalist best known for her time on the television show "60 Minutes". She was a former columnist for Life and Newsweek magazines, but joined "60 Minutes" in 1975 as a liberal voice of the show's debate segments Alexander also went on to publish a handful of books and memoirs including a memoir about her childhood and upbringing. Breaking history in 1951 as the first woman writer to be named on Life magazine's staff, Alexander was making headlines. She held her own regular column with Life for 5 years, called The Feminine Eye. Then, she became an editor of McCall's magazine, which was a position that had yet to be filled by a female in almost half a century. After her time with "60 Minutes", Alexander became involved with crime writing which eluded to the exposure of sex roles and social classes. Alexander often wrote about women with luxurious lives with little traumas.

The Supreme Court and its workings     The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the judiciary system with 9 judges all presidentially appointed. Some Supreme Court positions are served longer than the president that appointed them, or an entire lifetime.      The Supreme Court is held in the highest regard with the utmost respect, often giving the process and the judges an intimidating reputation; but it is not to be forgotten that these judges are people too, and although people of the law, they are just in their decision makings and have learned to be in a high position representing a great majority.     However, there can be bias as presidents have been known to try and influence the court's majority  opinion by appointing specific officials as judges, some with success, some not so lucky.     Receiving hundreds of thousands of cases a year, the Supreme Court has its own protocol and process for filtering out cases they can not or should not handle. They al