Chet Huntley
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"Chester Robert "Chet" Huntley" was an American television newscaster, best known for co-anchoring NBC/NBC's evening news program, Huntley-Brinkley Report/The Huntley-Brinkley Report, for 14 years beginning in 1956.

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Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here -- not yet.

Good night, Chet. Good night, David.

[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.