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There are people who follow in his footsteps. Tim Russert was like that, too. But it was an era when news divisions didn't make huge money and no one bought up huge amounts of media to propagandize and punditize the news.
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Lyndon B. Johnson. . If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America." ...
Asteroid 6318 Cronkhite is a Mars-crossing Asteroid discovered Nov 18 1990 by E.F. Helin at Palomar Observatory - Walter Cronkhite, the namesake of Asteroid 6318 died yesterday, July 17, 2009. Cronkhite was probably the most eloquent and constant media voice for the space program during its early years - projects Mercury, Gemini, and ApolloHail and farewell to a legend...
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Journalism has lost one of it's greatest today. He lived a long life but his imprint upon Journalism is what we need more of today.
Agreed.
True Journalism is like a long lost art. Like someone else said, the journalists of today just want to be media stars.
For some of us American of a certain age, Walter Croncite was THE NEWS.
We trusted him in a way that I doubt you younger folks can possibly understand.
Given what the MSM has become, one can hardly blame youngsters for not understanding that at one time Americans actually trusted the media, and WC WAS that media we could trust as far as most of us were concerned.
When we mourn Croncite, many of us are really also mourning the end of a media we can trust.
Good riddance.
If you want to know why "Journalism" is so fucked up to the extent that it no longer exists, blame Kronkite and his call against our men and women fighting in Vietnam.
After that every reporter wanted to make his bones by altering history like that douchebag Dan Rather.
Fuck him.
Lyndon B. Johnson. . If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America." ...
It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.
Good riddance.
If you want to know why "Journalism" is so fucked up to the extent that it no longer exists, blame Kronkite and his call against our men and women fighting in Vietnam.
After that every reporter wanted to make his bones by altering history like that douchebag Dan Rather.
Fuck him.
I still don't get why JFK death was an emotional time. JFK was not a good man and was a horrible president. Yes it is sad when anyone is killed but its not like he should have been some time of hero same with Obama.
"You can learn more by watching 'Let's Make a Deal' than you can by watching Walter Cronkite for a month." ~~ Archie Bunker
I still don't get why JFK death was an emotional time. JFK was not a good man and was a horrible president. Yes it is sad when anyone is killed but its not like he should have been some time of hero same with Obama.
Former CBS anchor 'Uncle Walter' Cronkite dead at 92 - CNN.comHe disliked the corporatization of news.
"The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed," he wrote in his 1996 memoir, "A Reporter's Life."
In a 2005 interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, he observed, "The misfortune with broadcasting today is that all -- even including your network, which is dedicated to the news -- do not take enough time to give us all of the facts and the background."
"Walter was truly the father of television news. The trust that viewers placed in him was based on the recognition of his fairness, honesty and strict objectivity," said "60 Minutes" correspondent Morley Safer in a statement.
"You can learn more by watching 'Let's Make a Deal' than you can by watching Walter Cronkite for a month." ~~ Archie Bunker
Wonderful! I dare say that if Archie were still alive or on the air, he would be watching FOX 24/7.
Sorry if I broke the mood...
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.