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There really is no forum for this. It would have to be a special forum that was dedicated to TRUE journalists. Cronkite died tonight. It was the final chapter on honest television news reporting, and a death of that science fiction concept of "fair witness." Those who never saw the news back then, missed understanding just how important journalism was to an honest expression of the Constitution of the United States.
There really is no forum for this. It would have to be a special forum that was dedicated to TRUE journalists. Cronkite died tonight. It was the final chapter on honest television news reporting, and a death of that science fiction concept of "fair witness." Those who never saw the news back then, missed understanding just how important journalism was to an honest expression of the Constitution of the United States.
"Go baby, go, Walter! Good journey."
Harry,
Thanks for starting this thread. Walter Cronkite deserves all the superlatives accorded him. He was more than a journalist; he was the conscience of America. When Cronkite dissented on the Vietnam War, Lyndon Johnson said, "That's it, if I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America." Above all else, he was a defender of the constitution.
I like him but he was really a presenter. You have to remmeber that we only got a very limited view of the world in those days. MKany jouranlsit hid facts from the pubilc then. Don;t kid yourself journalist have always controlled what and how they presented the news by their views.
he was a man to hold it together when the world was crumbling under his feet.not like these sissys we got now.he stood in the thick of it all.now hes reporting in heaven
he was a man to hold it together when the world was crumbling under his feet.not like these sissys we got now.he stood in the thick of it all.now hes reporting in heaven
He really was Walter "Concrete"! He was not only believable...he was believed. .... and that's the way was!
Serendipity I was just thinking about him because of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. I especially remember him for that, the presidential election conventions (before they were a pre-scripted done deal), and the Kennedy assassination.
I like him but he was really a presenter. You have to remmeber that we only got a very limited view of the world in those days. MKany jouranlsit hid facts from the pubilc then. Don;t kid yourself journalist have always controlled what and how they presented the news by their views.
Sure they did - for instance Kennedy's palandering. But, then again, they didn't think it really mattered to the issues at hand and that it was none of the publics business. Maybe they were right?
More important - they seemed more objective during that time. Cronkite was the ideal unobjective person. Sure he had opinions, but he kept them to himself, and he offered unrefutable facts. His reporting on Vietnam in 1968, where Johnson said "if I've lost Cronkite I've lost middle american", was not in your face, it was just good reporting that left viewers with the proper conclusion that the War in Vietnam was a lost cause as it was being conducted.
Now look at the network news - we've had Rathergate, we've had the media fake vehicle safety test (I think that was ABC), we have essentially an entertainment reporter on the CBS anchor desk, we have Michael Jackson and Brittany Spears as first 5 minute news. And the mainstreem media is so "in your face" biased that it's not even funny anymore, to the point of that they can't be considered an objective source of information anymore, or, based on what political affiliation is in power, a fair check-and-balance to the government (and there, we now have alternatives - online news sources).
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