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"It is my sad duty to tell you that our friend and colleague Walter Cronkite has died."
That is how CBS News anchor Katie Couric announced the death of her predecessor. The American television station CBS was Cronkite's home for nearly half a century.
Ironically and a bit symbolically, it was Couric, the first solo female anchor of a national television network, who broke the news. Though an outstanding television personality in her own right, in all probability this will be the most important moment in Couric's undistinguished career as anchor, certainly when compared to Cronkite's.
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