The Mary Tyler Moore Show is currently on Amazon Prime Video -- Walter Cronkite appeared in Episode 21 of Season 4 (starts at 19:40).
It's a good scene.
I was thinking maybe it is "meta" because Walter Cronkite -- the real television journalist -- appears on the MTM Show, which is fiction -- and Cronkite plays himself. Or -- he is himself.
In the storyline, Cronkite is an acquaintance of Lou Grant (who is a fictional character on the show, portrayed by Ed Asner).
(The word meta came to my mind, but I'm still not sure what it is -- when I Google "what does meta mean" words and paragraphs come onto my android tablet screen, and I read some of them and end up more confused than when I started.)
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[Wikipedia excerpt] --------------- Walter Cronkite became one of the top American reporters in World War II, covering battles in North Africa and Europe....He was one of eight journalists selected by the United States Army Air Forces to fly bombing raids over Germany in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress as part of a group called The Writing 69th....He covered the Battle of the Bulge, and after the war, he covered the Nuremberg trials....
In 1950, Cronkite joined CBS News in its young and growing television division, again recruited by [Edward R.] Murrow. Cronkite began working at WTOP-TV (now WUSA), the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late-Sunday-evening newscast Up To the Minute, which followed What's My Line? at 11:00 pm ET from 1951 through 1962.
...On April 16, 1962, Cronkite succeeded Douglas Edwards as anchorman of CBS's nightly feature newscast, tentatively renamed Walter Cronkite with the News, but later the CBS Evening News on September 2, 1963, when the show was expanded from 15 to 30 minutes....
...During the 1960s and 1970s, Walter Cronkite was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. [end - Wikipedia excerpts]
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