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“The most trusted man in America” has died, Age 92.
He will be missed.
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and that’s the way it was for the last time
His Apollo 11 coverage was a classic. He still is the standard.
Been hearing him all over TV on “moonshot” coverage promos….
Guess they’ll change some of those….
Cronkite probably anchored more of those launchings than NASA.
Definitely will miss the guy.
Great guy.
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End of an era. Dan Carlin talked about him recently on one of his two podcasts. Comparing today’s news operations with the real newsmen. A full life, well lived. I can’t imagine comparing the current network news readers (the bimbo on CBS????) to him in any way. None of them could shine his shoes.
truth and nothing but the truth..
A great American indeed. I thought he was long deceased.
So long Uncle Walter, and thanks for all the news.
#9: Walter Cronkite always signed off “And that’s the way it is” at the end of a broadcast. Despite what “homehive” claims, Walter told the news the way it was, and didn’t sugar coat it with platitudes or “happy news.” I want newscasters that are the real thing again….
Brother Walter, we will sacrifice Dull Care for you this year.
Cronkite and Huntley reported the news. You could trust them. They deserved respect.
Most of the guys that claim to be news anchors now are little more than liberal propaganda outlets which is why Fox is killing them.
If you are a conservative or middle of the road you end up watching Fox at least some of the time if you want to know what’s going on and if you are liberal you still end up watching Fox because the guys on the other networks can’t be counted on to keep and eye on the President or Congress. They are too busy acting as agents of the Democratic party to give a clue about what the other side thinks and why.
Walter may have been “most trusted”. But I wonder if he really did anything to deserve it? I doubt he strayed outside of strictly imposed network guidelines. And his rejection of the Vietnam war came pretty much when it was a dead duck with everyone else, already. Soon even Hollywood was dissing war with movies like “Catch 22”, “MASH”, “R.P.M.”, and “The Strawberry Statement”. Whereas earlier, it was all “The Alamo”, “Guns of Navarone” and “Where Eagles Dare”. I guess it was permitted in 1970, of Hollywood, to start denouncing war. But not before then.
So while Walter C. didn’t lie about what he saw in Vietnam. He didn’t exactly go out on any limbs against it, until its near end.
oldnews.. that matters
Mj and other false gods.. not so much
Man on the moon…and a tear. It doesn’t get any better than that.
A calming voice of reason in a crazed world.
Does this mean that we can get wind turbines off the coast of Massachusetts now? Walter was one of the chief opponents.
He had the chance to be part of the solution for the next generation, but it ruined his view, so everyone must suffer for his elitist ‘view’.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/26/sunday/main560595.shtml
Bill O’Reilly claims Cronkite inspired him to be the most trusted man to Fox News viewers.
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.