I’m sure most of you have heard the news by now, but I would be derelict in my duties as a blogger, and would generally feel bad about myself as a human being, were I to blog about the passings of Billy Mays and Farrah Fawcett but leave out the esteemed Walter Cronkite.
Cronkite passed away peacefully yesterday evening at the ripe old age of 92.
For me, and for many of you as well, Cronkite is someone that I knew better for his legendary name than for any actual newscasting. By the time I was old enough to give a crap about watching the evening news, Cronkite was long gone. And yet, even to me, his name is synonymous with television news. He covered the most important events of and amazing, tumultuous century– from the Kennedy assassination (watch the video above, it will give you chills) to the Nuremberg trials, to man’s first steps on the moon.
He was one of a dying breed of newsmen and women– someone whose lifelong commitment to delivering the news was fueled, not by a desire for sensationalism or dramatization, but by a desire to disseminate important information to the American public so that we might all be better informed about what’s going on the world, and be better equipped to make important decisions.
In times like these, tv news could really use a man like him. His straightforwardness and candor will be missed.
And that’s the way it is.
way to stay on top of breaking news! maybe you should try a new approach and go ahead and report patrick swayze dying before he actually does.
It wasn’t mentioned that Walter Cronkite was the most trusted man in America! He became know for that as well.
I always feel guilty when people die and I had no idea that they were still alive.
That video is chilling.
Wow. That made me tear up. May we NEVER have to live through such a thing…
This leftist mouthpiece was at the top of his game when only:
CBS ABC NBC…the three ‘rabbit ear reception’ stations were available…before cable, before internet, no microwave, not satellite…
Primitive media times..but, with such limited news access, a great time for spreading liberal propaganda like:
-JFK ‘Camelot’ crapola
-Helped inflict the “Geat Society” on us
-Helped destroy the ‘Black Family’
-Cowed that buffoon Johnson into screwing up Nam
-Dittos with Nixon
-Permeated the ‘faux intelligentsia’ (60s college profs)with lib ideas they passed on to students
-helped to destroy campuses with lib propaganda (as every glued in at ‘5 O’Clock News’ with Uncle Walter…
**constantly molding naive minds filled with mush
**there is many many more examples kiddies..
Todays ‘Obama voter’ has no idea of ‘why’ or ‘how’ he was swindled by leftist libs like Uncle Walter. (they have no memory of it, and it’s not in the ‘lib written’ history books)
They will continue to be swindled out of their identity, their American heritage, and their personal FREEDOM!!
Burn in hell, traitor.
As for ruining journalism, that’s exactly right. He was subjective and other journalists emulated him. Remember the moment when he took off his glasses and said JFK was dead? Many years later, Tom Brokaw, in an exact duplicate of Cronkite’s timing, took off his glasses and said JFK, Jr, was dead.
But Brokaw doesn’t wear glasses. He had them specifically for that broadcast, so he could be just like Uncle Walter.
No tears here..
Walter started what we have today.
A political party / media intellectual complex.
He helped kill America.
Screw you Walter.
A little testy, aren’t you? Where’d you copy and paste all that from? If you walk around with all of that knowledge about Walter Cronkite and your (and your perception of the rest of the world’s) reality has been affected that profoundly by a TV Newscaster, I recommend long term inpatient psychiatric hospitalization.
It always amazes me the total crap someone who calls themself Anonymous has the courage to post.
well said Spray on Abs, you couragous soul, well said!
apparently, you have never listened to his newscast. and if you did, you must have a very screwed perspective on reality.
the only time (that i can recall) he stated his opinion during a newscast was during the vietnam war – when he stated that it’s in his opinion that america should call back the troops.
once he retired, yes he did state his opinions on politics, society, etc. but that was AFTER his newscasting days.
Katie Couric, you’re such a bitch!
When I was a very little girl, my parents always watched the evening news with Walter Cronkite. And when he said ” and that’s the way it is” it meant it was time for me to get ready for bed.
I too wasn’t old enough to care much about his reporting before he left the anchor chair.
But I do feel part of American culture died with him.
That was amazing. RIP Walter.
Hey Anonymous – you might even be stupid enough to cry when Rush Limbaugh drugs himself to death. Oh yes – and Sarah Palin – who can’t put a sentence together – is our great hope!
Yeah “personal freedom” – for the top one percent to screw everyone else in this country. Only problem is that half of those being screwed are too stupid to see it.
I remember Mr. Cronkite’s broadcasts, they broke the mold when they made him. Rest in Peace, he was a great reporter and commentator.
May he rest in peace.
And absolutely about the news thing. I’m so tired of anchors reporting on stupid unimportant things and dramatizing them to get viewership. I know they need something to fill the time slot, but come on- “stay tuned to see if YOUR bicycle spokes could be giving you ANAL CANCER!!” Really? REALLY?? Maybe it would be important if not for the little fact that one person, in France, stuck a spoke up his rectum, got an infection, and died of anal cancer or some sort of scenario like that. They’re all just scare plots to get people to watch but don’t actually deliver anything newsworthy.
dude, you should totally hook up with kelly! she loves shit about bicycles and anuses.
Wow now that I think about it, it was probably reading those posts to begin with that subconsciously got me to make up that example. Crazy how the brain works!