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“The most trusted man in America” has died, Age 92.
He will be missed.
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“The most trusted man in America” has died, Age 92.
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I’ve missed Cronkite since he left in 81.
92 is a very long time to be around. He deserves the rest.
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Cronkite was just one man who helped bring journalism to a professional level.
Rupert Murdoch is just one man out to defeat all the great strides made by Cronkite.
So I click on d_vorak/blog this AM to see stories on Walter Cronkite then down the page Glenn Beck, oh how far we have fallen. May Cronkite’s ghost visit Beck and tell him he’s “As mad as hell and not going to take it anymore”. Na Beck’s just a bad actor visit Murdoch
Thank You Mr. Cronkite for setting the standard so high I hope some day the News can get back up there.
Why everybody is dying on these 2 damn doomed months !!!!
I remember a story about Walter. He was sailing his boat off Martha’s Vineyard and was getting too close to the swallow shoreline. Groups of people began to wave him off, he thought they had recognized him and just waved back.
Missed by whom?
Most people never saw him on the air.
And in his later years he became a nut.
“I have a feeling that it [Osama bin Laden’s new videotape] could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I’m a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.”
Even more poignant for me – my dad used to write a lot of the dialogue for him during the NASA space mission broadcasts. One of a kind.
MikeN you just stick with Big Bill O. he is fair and balanced just enough to tell you only what you need to here to affirm how you want to think. Cronkite couldn’t hold a candle to him.
His Karl Rove comment was not out of line given all the clever shenanigans Karl has thought up.
#13, #26: Walter Cronkite : “I’m Glad To Sit On The Right Hand Of Satan”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTwce_ZLDw
I am too young, I think, to have ever seen Cronkite, I am of the Dan Rather era.
To me Walter will be remembered for odd moon landing coverage viewed decades after the fact, and him whoring out his good name for the agri-evil that is ADM.
While I might not rank ADM with the likes of Union Carbide, but they are pretty damn close. The live in the tit of subsidy and have driven the US down the wrong road.
ADM was David Brinkley.
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I think MikeN is talking about this tape. Nothing suspicious about it at all.
Nothing suspicious about 6 point jump Bush got either. Nah, Karl’s a saint, just ask McCain after the ’99 primaries.