In 1980, he anchored his own program on WCBS-TV in New York and later became a CBS News correspondent covering the wars in El Salvador and the Falkland Islands, among other assignments.
Have their been any profiles of O'Reilly in the Nation or whatever that covered the period he spent as a "reporter" in El Salvador while Cronkite was still sitting at the anchor desk at CBS? I have a feeling Ray Bonner wasn't looking over his shoulder fearing his stories would be scooped by O'Reilly.