Being a news guy is a weird occupation these days. When I got into the profession back in the 1980s, there was no Twitter, no Facebook, and very few cable TV channels. It would be a while before some ânewsâ channels went way left, and others went way right. Walter Cronkite had just retired a few years earlier, and he had not reached the saintly status his name invokes today. Almost every day, someone attacks me, or pretty much any news person, because we have reported a story they donât agree with, or one that doesnât echo their views.