Ironically those reporting his death today are not journalistically fit to shine his shoes.
Thanks Mr. Cronkite - you did good.
Thanks Mr. Cronkite - you did good.
Walter Cronkite, dead at 92
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I was so sad to learn this. I have always admired Walter Chronkite as a journalist and as a person. Watching the clips from his career I realized how far TV journalism has fallen with the likes of relentlessly partisan bloviators populating the 24-hour cable "news" networks.
We're poorer today for the loss of a great man who truly earned the title "most trusted man in America."
Goodbye, Walter.
You always hear the phrase "the voice of a generation" being bandied about a lot.
Cronkite was the voice of four generations. He WAS the voice of the Space Age, and for all the monumental news events of the mid-late 20th Century.
I especially enjoyed his work as the narrator in the first IMAX films which dealt with space exploration (Hail Columbia, The Dream Is Alive, etc.). The breathtaking shots of our planet from space, with the amazing music and his voice, merely telling us what we looking at.
Amazing stuff. Amazing man. A time of integrity in reporting when ethics led ratings, and objectivity led uninformed, intermixed opinion.
When Cronkite DID give an opinion on the air, the word "Commentary" would be on the screen. While injecting his own sense of reporting into what he did, he kept the news and his opinions separate, while expressing both.
And ... he was great when he met Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
--Ted
Cronkite was the voice of four generations. He WAS the voice of the Space Age, and for all the monumental news events of the mid-late 20th Century.
I especially enjoyed his work as the narrator in the first IMAX films which dealt with space exploration (Hail Columbia, The Dream Is Alive, etc.). The breathtaking shots of our planet from space, with the amazing music and his voice, merely telling us what we looking at.
Amazing stuff. Amazing man. A time of integrity in reporting when ethics led ratings, and objectivity led uninformed, intermixed opinion.
When Cronkite DID give an opinion on the air, the word "Commentary" would be on the screen. While injecting his own sense of reporting into what he did, he kept the news and his opinions separate, while expressing both.
And ... he was great when he met Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
--Ted
+1
The last of the great televison newsmen.
Amen to that
Those broadcast would not have been the same with out him at the anchor desk.
