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urth

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RIP Walter Cronkite, 92
« on: July 17, 2009, 05:42:10 PM »
He spanned several eras in news reporting, from Edward R. Murrow to the internet. Died at his home in NY after a long illness. They do not make news anchors like him anymore.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/07/17/entertainment/e173002D23.DTL&tsp=1

...and that's the way it is, July 17, 2009.
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Re: RIP Walter Cronkite, 92
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2009, 05:46:14 PM »
Quote from: urth on July 17, 2009, 05:42:10 PM
He spanned several eras in news reporting, from Edward R. Murrow to the internet. Died at his home in NY after a long illness. They do not make news anchors like him anymore.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/07/17/entertainment/e173002D23.DTL&tsp=1

Beat me by minutes.  What timing for him to die the weekend of the 40th anniv of the moon landing.  Amazing career. CBS is devoting the entire Evening News to Walter. Bad year for icons, folks.
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Re: RIP Walter Cronkite, 92
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2009, 05:49:49 PM »
You scooped me by a few minutes, Urth!  Interesting that he died during the 40th anniv week of Apollo 11.  I associate him closely with the manned space missions:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_walter_cronkite

(D'oh, 40th anniv JINX!)
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Re: RIP Walter Cronkite, 92
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2009, 05:54:38 PM »
Clicking around the dial just now, and -- within minutes of each other -- NBC's Brian Williams and CBS's Bob Schieffer both used the phrase "Walter Cronkite was who I wanted to be".  I'm sure they won't be the last to say that this weekend.
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Re: RIP Walter Cronkite, 92
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2009, 07:09:27 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on July 17, 2009, 05:54:38 PM
Clicking around the dial just now, and -- within minutes of each other -- NBC's Brian Williams and CBS's Bob Schieffer both used the phrase "Walter Cronkite was who I wanted to be".  I'm sure they won't be the last to say that this weekend.

Just watched the CBS Evening News broadcast (it airs at 6:30 here). It appears that CBS is preempting 60 Minutes on Sunday for a retrospective of Uncle Walter's life. Hard to picture any of today's journalists having anything close to the impact that he did.

MSNBC interrupted Keith Olbermann's show as well--he's one whose reflections on Cronkite I'd like to see.
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Re: RIP Walter Cronkite, 92
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2009, 08:10:17 PM »
Quote from: urth on July 17, 2009, 07:09:27 PM
Quote from: RGMike on July 17, 2009, 05:54:38 PM
Clicking around the dial just now, and -- within minutes of each other -- NBC's Brian Williams and CBS's Bob Schieffer both used the phrase "Walter Cronkite was who I wanted to be".  I'm sure they won't be the last to say that this weekend.

Just watched the CBS Evening News broadcast (it airs at 6:30 here). It appears that CBS is preempting 60 Minutes on Sunday for a retrospective of Uncle Walter's life. Hard to picture any of today's journalists having anything close to the impact that he did.

MSNBC interrupted Keith Olbermann's show as well--he's one whose reflections on Cronkite I'd like to see.
it's kind of emblematic of things.  Not only do they not make them like him anymore, they don't hire them either!
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Re: RIP Walter Cronkite, 92
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2009, 09:49:53 AM »
Quote from: ggould on July 17, 2009, 08:10:17 PM

it's kind of emblematic of things.  Not only do they not make them like him anymore, they don't hire them either!

too true....

"...but it is increasingly clear to this reporter, that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could."  - Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.

"If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost the American people." - Lyndon Baines Johnson



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Re: RIP Walter Cronkite, 92
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2009, 10:32:11 AM »
Quote from: mshray on July 18, 2009, 09:49:53 AM
"If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost the American people." - Lyndon Baines Johnson

powerful, and I've heard it also reported as "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America," which puts a more pragmatic political angle on LBJ's reported quote.

Walter Cronkite-- his name is solid sounding, a name you can trust to stand in any kind of weather.
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Re: RIP Walter Cronkite, 92
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2009, 01:09:46 PM »
A nice biting critique of the hypocrisy of the current news media, as it 'honors' Cronkite, as if they were like Cronkite:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/07/18/cronkite/index.html
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