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edited July 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
He was one of the best RIP

http://news.aol.com/article/walter-cron ... -92/577373

Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

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.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

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  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,301
    Legend!





    2009 has been a bad year for the famous.
  • John Briggs 2008John Briggs 2008 Posts: 1,024
    The greatest and most ethical journalist of the last century. May his family be blessed.
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,510
    I'm so fucking old I remember him. Huntley and Brinkley, too. :mrgreen:

    Back when news was news....not celebrity gossip.

    RIP, Walt. :cry:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    A couple weeks ago there was a small blurb on the Times website about how ill he was - small because the whole paper was set on Michael Jackson.
    Walter Cronkite was before my time, but I long for an era in which broadcast news was something worth watching. RIP.
  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    "And that's the way it is."

    I remember laying in bed with my mom as a small chil listening to the radio, Walter's radio newscast.

    R.I.P. Walter Cronkite.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Don't think we'll ever see one like him again....and that's sad. He should be the standard not the jokers who we have now. The Dollar has TKO'ed ethics in journalism....especially in Television.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
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    rip mr cronkite
  • Who PrincessWho Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    I read that he was so well known that at one point news anchors in Sweden were called Cronkiters!

    The most trusted man in America. RIP. :(
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  • weenieweenie Posts: 1,623
    He was the epitome of news broadcasting - class act, with a voice that somehow managed to soothe no matter how horrific the news was. God bless.
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    WC was a class act through and through and we've lost so many this year so far. Just like this fellow in England:
    Royal tributes for oldest veteran

    Henry Allingham wanted people to remember the toll of war
    The Queen has led the tributes to Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and one of the last surviving World War I servicemen, who has died aged 113.



    Royal Tributes For Oldest Veteran From WWI the last of his kind passes away at 113.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,301
    tybird wrote:
    Don't think we'll ever see one like him again....and that's sad. He should be the standard not the jokers who we have now. The Dollar has TKO'ed ethics in journalism....especially in Television.

    I agree, but I also think part of the reason why journalism is so watered down these days is due to:
    1) 24 hour news networks
    2) People's love affair with pop-culture bullshit

    Back in Cronkite's day there were really two options for television news. CBS or NBC. That was it.
    They also reported "news" as it was originally defined...as news.

    Flip on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News,...horrible, horrible, horrible!

    In the last 2 weeks, CNN has dedicated probably 60% of all air-time to Michael Jackson.
    With the shit happening in Iraq, Afghanistan, N. Korea, the economy, and everything else...we got Michael Jackson for 3 hours straight?
    That's horseshit. Sadly, if CNN (or others) didn't cover it, they'd lose viewership because that's what people want to watch!
    People love that shit and for as much as you can point fingers at the news networks, they really should be pointed at the people who WANT that "news".
    Also, people have become so much more politicized. You have networks who manipulate stories for one political ideology. Fox is a perfect example of this. But it's not just them! Turn on CNN and every topic seems to result in some political forum that has two to four people all with opposing ideas who sit there and bicker back and forth about who's right. It's pathetic!

    While I think "nightly news" is better, it's still crap because they barely scratch the surface of any story then move on to something else.

    Investigative journalism is very much a thing of the past...and it's really too bad.
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