Overheard on Walter Cronkite's Cellphone:

Walter Cronkite

“Today, my network used the song ‘Africa’ by the ’80s pop band Toto as the background music for scenes from the memorial service for South African President Nelson Mandela, a true world leader honored and respected for his ability to believe in and fight for a cause, and then forgive those who kept him a political prisoner for 27 years, his main crime being the color of his skin and the strength of his convictions. My network did not use the South African national anthem. We did not use a gospel song by perhaps a lively yet somber South African choir. We did not use even a jazz-flavored funeral dirge from New Orleans. We used ‘Africa’ by goddam Toto, a song the writer once described as ‘something a young white boy of mediocre musical talent and slight imagination might write about Africa if he had never been there and didn’t know a fucking thing about it.’ And Jesus wept. Twice. And so did I.”

Walter Cronkite, legendary television journalist