hjmick
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An interesting story about him, during WWII he volunteered to fly in a bomber over Germany to report on how the 8th Air Force operated.
He also covered the Battle of the Bulge.
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An interesting story about him, during WWII he volunteered to fly in a bomber over Germany to report on how the 8th Air Force operated.
He refused to act like the star ... folks made him into one. ... "The most trusted man in Amrerica."Wiki instantly updated I see:
Walter Cronkite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prayers to his family.
I don't mean any disrespect to Walter but shouldn't the story be more important than the reporter? Too many reporters are TV stars nowadays, Cronkite included.
He was in the air over the D-Day Invasion too.An interesting story about him, during WWII he volunteered to fly in a bomber over Germany to report on how the 8th Air Force operated.
He also covered the Battle of the Bulge.
True Journalism is like a long lost art. Like someone else said, the journalists of today just want to be media stars.
It's that but also, it's the fact they let their politics influence their telling of the news. The greatest two examples being Fox News as the home to Republicans and MSNBC as the home to Democrats.
Journalists like Cronkite, Murrow, Woodward, and Bernstein (especially the first two) are such a rare breed now a days.
It reminds me so much of one of my favorite movies, Network.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6yq5O8GXUo&feature=related]YouTube - "Network" (1976) Howard Beale "Mad As Hell" Speech[/ame]
Interesting fact: Walter's daughter Kathy had a role as the Patty Hearst like terrorist in this movie.
Hail and farewell to a legend...
"You can learn more by watching 'Let's Make a Deal' than you can by watching Walter Cronkite for a month." ~~ Archie Bunker
You're quoting a t.v. character? Bravo!
They used to know Archie was the joke, too.
Wiki instantly updated I see:
Walter Cronkite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prayers to his family.
I don't mean any disrespect to Walter but shouldn't the story be more important than the reporter? Too many reporters are TV stars nowadays, Cronkite included.
"You can learn more by watching 'Let's Make a Deal' than you can by watching Walter Cronkite for a month." ~~ Archie Bunker
Cronkite's greatness was that he was an honorable man...
This is the man about whom Richard Nixon said "if we've lost Walter Cronkite, we've lost the war"...
He can be the story one last time. He earned it.
Hail and farewell to a legend...
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