Walter Cronkite -- Dead at 92

[jillian]

Hail and farewell to a legend...

http://www.cbsnews.com/

 

[del]

and that's the way it is.



i'm going to hell.

RIP mr cronkite.

 

[Mad Scientist]

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.

 

[Annie]

I was brought up with him, but was old enough at the end of his run to know he was less than biased. With that said, I'm sorry he won't be here for the coverage of the old moon walk-for him it was special. Fair well Walter.

 

[jillian]

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.

 

[CrimsonWhite]

Cronkite led the way for TV journalism. All the time he was on the air, there was never any indication of hs political leanings. Reporters today should follow his example. It is too bad that they do not.

Cronkite will be missed.

 

[PuckeredPete]

I grew up watching him and Huntley and Brinkley....I am totally saddened.

 

[WillowTree]

Lyndon B. Johnson. . If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America." ...

 

[AllieBaba]

Shit, I thought he died 10 years ago.

 

[Liability]

Michael Jackson died. I found it difficult to care.

Walter Cronkite died. I find I don't care all that much.

Still, may he rest in peace.

 

[hjmick]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K8Q3cqGs7I]YouTube - Walter Cronkite announces death of JFK[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmOBbxgxKvo]YouTube - 1968 King Assassination Report (CBS News)[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwaA-hbvYF8]YouTube - Walter Cronkite And The Lunar Landing (CBS News)[/ame]

 

[Liability]

YouTube - Walter Cronkite announces death of JFK

YouTube - 1968 King Assassination Report (CBS News)

YouTube - Walter Cronkite And The Lunar Landing (CBS News)

I have to acknowledge that I VERY much enjoyed watching the Lunar Landing and the Cronkite touch in reporting that whole launch to landing and the return trip. He was like a kid just before going downstairs on Christmas morning while trying to retain professional detachment. He was very very good on those days.

 

[Modbert]

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.

 

[random3434]

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.

 

[Xenophon]

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.

 

[random3434]

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.

Oh, cool, could you post that story please? I would love to read about it Xeno!

 

[Modbert]

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.

 

[Modbert]

Oh, cool, could you post that story please? I would love to read about it Xeno!

Here you go Echo:

Walter Cronkite | 1916 - 2009 - Walter Cronkite - Los Angeles Times

Walter Cronkite

 

[Midnight Marauder]

Cronkite was a pioneer, a groundbreaker, an innovator, then a standard. No one's been able to measure up to his standard in TV news, and likely never will.

Walter Cronkite, on assignment in that great newsroom in the sky. And that's the way it is.

 

[JimH52]

We have lost a Giant from Journalism and a Giant of a man. He actually reported the news, instead of telling us what the news should mean to us, a long lost talent. He never tipped his hand where he stood with his political philosophys. It was years later that many finally discerned that he was probably a liberal. Even as a kid, I watched him as he anchored the CBS evening news and found his words nothing but truth.

I recall his emotional moments as he reported the assasination and death of JFK. News hasn't been the same since he signed of for the last time.