CBS Legend Walter Cronkite Dies
“Most Trusted Man in America” Passes Away in New York at 92
Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News,” has died Friday night in New York. He was 92.
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As Cronkite said on March 6, 1981, concluding his final broadcast as anchorman: “Old anchormen, you see, don’t fade away, they just keep coming back for more. And that’s the way it is.”
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A newsman that people actually trusted. It’s been a long time since that’s been the case for most people. I’ll miss him.
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“There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.”
On politics?
“We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
On journalism?
“Our job is only to hold up the mirror – to tell and show the public what has happened.”
On blogging?
“The earliest admonition we had about the computer was to quit using the phrase electric brain. The folks in Philadelphia tried to convince us that the Univac didn’t have a brain, and that whatever we fed into it would determine what we got out of it.”
On Walter?
“This opens the door on another chapter of history.“
An absolute icon — an icon of the finest of journalism — how sorely he has been missed, is missed and will be missed — in the journalism of today!
24/7 coverage for three weeks on how journalism is suppose to be done to show these twits of anchors what idjit they are.
Have a safe journey,Walter Cronkite. We honor you and will miss you.
at the Martha’s Vineyard Yatch club the summer I bartended there. He would sit at the bar, drink single malt and kind of hold court, people would come up to him for a few minutes and then leave and then more folks would come up.
He was gracious and smart and we will not see his like again soon.
Saw a bit of evil in the eyes of old Walter from some of the pictures and remembered the New World Order quotes. Something about lamestream media molding the opionions of sheeple for generations now. Ya, That’s the way WE want you to think about what diversionary news WE give you.