Cronkite – I believe it was from an interview with him on the biography channel:
(1) Fired from his first reporter position (Houston?) while covering a woman’s murder. Cronkite broke into her home and stole her picture, which was posted in the newspaper. The problem was Cronkite broke into the wrong home (a neighbor) and stole the neighbor’s picture. Cronkite proved to be a very stupid man and an inept thief! (Oh, and he justified it by saying that “the news media was less honest back then.”)
(2) Pressured from a different job (Texas) after a natural gas explosion killed 155 (?) school children, one of whom was the School Superintendent’s son. Cronkite hounded the grieving Superintendent with no care fro his feelings – for a news story. What a cold-hearted miserable pig!
(3) While a war correspondent (remember Cronkite was draftable age), Cronkite left the Sicilian invasion (pressured to go bring first hand accounts of the fighting), without going ashore. Missing for three weeks, he returned to the USA and convinced his managers that he wanted to tell the American public first hand about “the way it is.” Coward, while letting real American’s die!