I regret that in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation.
--Walter Cronkite in an interview in 1996, via salon.com
Cronkite was no shill for any power complex be they corporate, government, or military. He repeatedly called out verifiable lies perpetrated by those in power.
The implication is that the current generation has never picked up on that duty.