Walter Cronkite Dead at 92
From NYT:
Walter Cronkite, an iconic CBS News journalist who defined the role of anchorman for a generation of television viewers, died Friday at the age of 92, his family said.
“My father Walter Cronkite died,” his son Chip said just before 8 p.m. Eastern. CBS interrupted prime time programming to show an obituary for the man who defined the network’s news division for decades.
Mr. Cronkite’s family said last month that he was seriously ill with cerebrovascular disease.
Mr. Cronkite anchored the “CBS Evening News” from 1962 to 1981, at a time when television became the dominant medium of the United States. He figuratively held the hand of the American public during the civil rights movement, the space race, the Vietnam war, and the impeachment of Richard Nixon. During his tenure, network newscasts were expanded to 30 minutes from 15.
“It is impossible to imagine CBS News, journalism or indeed America without Walter Cronkite,” Sean McManus, the president of CBS News, said in a statement. “More than just the best and most trusted anchor in history, he guided America through our crises, tragedies and also our victories and greatest moments.”Full NYT Story HERE.
CBS tribute HERE.
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Posted by Unknown @ 7/17/2009 05:35:00 PM
21 Comments:
Wow. I feel like I ought to delete the Glenn Beck clip since he doesn't deserve to be anywhere near Walter Cronkite - the most trusted man in America.
Go with god, Mr. Cronkite.
Glenn Beck doesn't deserve to lick Mr. Cronkite's shoes.
Or anything that has ever touched something Water may have once touched. Ugh.
I never trusted Walter Cronkite he was a liberal and presented the news in that manner. He was friends with JFK and told us that the war was lost. What the hell did he know. He among others was responsible for the killing of millions in Vietnam after we pulled out. If we had fought the war smartly and not listened to windbags like Cronkite we could of kept millions of Vietnamese from dieing. But, liberals don't care if people live under communism. Just ask a Vietnamese who lives here in the US who were the cruel ones the hippy liberals or people who wanted to win the war. We were hamstrung in Vietnam. The big bombing offensives worked, but we did not have the nerve to continue them. Instead we pulled out and let millions die.
I just love our pet 5150 Troll. Don't you, Joe? It just wouldn't be MS without 'em.
They are kinda cute in their own sick way.
Very sad to see Cronkite go.
6:23PM - Did someone slip you a micky for luch? Why would you stomp and pounce on someone on the day of their death? You need help, seriously.
6:23 = Barry Goldwater
Sorry, but I cannot share in the sorrow at the death of another "I know better than you" Democrat.
The "most trusted man in America" consistently betrayed our trust and played on our fears. He is dead. Good. If there is a god, then right about now Walter is getting quite an education.
Nothing personal, you understand, but it's just so delicious to see the liberals making heros out of shits.
Ted Kennedy's next on the list. The man who ran from his responsibility to a fellow human being (who he was screwing) just to try to preserve his political career is going to have quite a date with his maker. But the Dems will give him a funeral and memorial that will shadow that of the man recently known as the pedophile drug addict.
Goodbye Walter Cronkite, 92 years old, say hello to Ronald Reagan and see if you can stop yourself from saying "Sorry."
I will honor Walter in death.
But will leave for another day comments about his political beliefs and leanings.
If you insist. But let's not pretend there is anything religious in politics.
In my somewhat liberal opinion, Walter was a class act and a man of integrity while Ted Kennedy is and always has been a total alcoholic scumbag.
I was obviously talking to 9:41.
Sicko Goobers. Shame on You.
You're so right, Joe and "Petra"-- Don't put Glen Beck anywhere NEAR Walter Cronkite; after all, Glen Beck is obviously a true patriot and Walter Cronkite is nothing but an old, dead Commie who empowered the hippies and the Viet Cong. Thanks, Walter, may your vital organs continue to gelatinize in Hell!
No one gets out this life alive; Teddy has lasted way too long, perhaps becuase he has already embalmed himself from the inside out.
I hope Mary Jo and her parents are there to greet his selfish, overbearing, privileged ass when it gets to hell.
Cronkite was one of the old school reporters. Didn't care about staying young and youthful and told it like it was. None of this pussy footing around and bullshit. Look at the so called "pretty boys and houchie women" showing everything on tv now just to get ratings. Shameful losers and they wonder why kids are having sex at 11.
WE SHOULD ALL GO TO CLOWNCIL ON TUESDAY FOR THE AGENDA ITEMS ON JACKSON EVENT. BRING THIS UP
...AEG is right now trying to auction off to Hollywood that concert film of the Michael Jackson rehearsals for his final tour. I'm told Sony, Universal and Fox are in negotiations, but the price keeps going up and up. $50 million is where it started
Rita, I think you say things like this to shock and awe. I wish you would back up your slurs with some facts instead of taking the Fox News approach to character assassination.
You are not funny, not clever, but you are obsolete.
If Walter Cronkite hadn't lost faith in our military strategies over in Viet Nam, we might've had a more successful outcome. Unfortunately, the situation over there was evidently THAT fragile. These are facts, not "slurs," 6:32. You, however, have rendered yourself an inconsequential non-entity because you're afraid to identify yourself. And by the way, "awe" is NOT a verb, as Cronkite could have told you, but I think he's busy getting embalmed right about now.
He was good but no Sharon Tay.
Rita:
I was in the Vietnam War. You give Cronkite too much credit by saying that things would have turned out differently if he hadn't been critical of the war. What he saw is what I saw -- a war that couldn't be won.
We lost and nothing so bad happened that it justified the loss of all those lives. So why were in that war in the first place?
8:54 = 30 yr old liberal blogger
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