Playbill

June, 1973

It is an Omen of crisis when even the conservative Chicago Tribune bridles editorially at the Nixon Administration's heavy-handed treatment of the media. Our April issue contained a special Forum report on the censorship controversy, and in this month's Playboy Interview, veteran newscaster Walter Cronkite leaves his anchor desk to join the fight. Cronkite charges the White House with conspiring to muzzle the press--and admits he was wrong in defending the Vietnam war at a time when Young Turk j...