A great man is gone- RIP Walter Cronkite

BRMLAW

For those of you not old enough to remember he was an American treasure.

jlew24asu

agreed. I took several classes at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU back in the day. definitely a great man. RIP

http://cronkite.asu.edu/

gimmesometruth27

this sucks. i remember watching him on cbs evening news when i was a little kid. he was still interviewed and asked to comment on current issues up until the last year or so. i remember seeing the old footage of when kennedy was killed and he broke in and told the country what had happened. he kept putting on and taking of his black rimmed glasses in between bursts of speech in an effort to keep his composure. great journalist.

i hope he gets at least 1/10th of the coverage michael jackson got when he died. with the way the media is today if he had passed on the same day, shamefully cronkite's passing would have only been a footnote.

QuarterToTen

He was so much more than a news anchor.

His honest, sincere demeanor was so endearing, and he seemed to be such a humble man.

He had a genuine enthusiam, curiosity towards life that was just so engaging,
thought provoking and comforting even during the most tragic times.

His down to earth approach was something we'll never see again.

PearlJain

QuarterToTen wrote:

He was so much more than a news anchor.

His honest, sincere demeanor was so endearing, and he seemed to be such a humble man.

He had a genuine enthusiam, curiosity towards life that was just so engaging,
thought provoking and comforting even during the most tragic times.

His down to earth approach was something we'll never see again.

God! Do I feel really creepy old, now! My grandparents practically raised me and my two brothers. They had such undconditional love for us.....and there was also Walter Conkrite on the CBS News at 5pm (EST)........those reassuring words........"And that's the way it is.......and then the current day and date." No one has been able to fill his shoes since! Oh - the sweet memories of childhood - when things seemed so simple. I was actually alive for Woodstock and witnessing the Man on the Moon - 1969! I am very creepy old! Ha! Miss you Uncle Walter!

Dirtie_Frank

More for MJ then Walter Cronkite. I think that is sad :(

jlew24asu

Dirtie_Frank wrote:

More for MJ then Walter Cronkite. I think that is sad :(

o come on. MJ was a global entertainment icon who died suddenly at age 50 just before a world tour.

Cronkite is a 92 year old journalist. are you really expecting Walter's death to get hours of media coverage? what is the story? he already has been honored many times within journalism circles, such as at Arizona State University where a school is named after him.

soulsinging

My brother was telling me about an article he read that said when he was a national news anchor, Cronkite was pulling something like 70% of the American audience. That's unreal. Kinda sad that that kind of consensus seems utterly impossible these days. Nowadays, instead of all of us looking for a newscaster that can be objective, honest, and reasonable and can be a trustworthy source of fact that we can draw on in a meaningful dialogue, we all pick a guy with a slant we agree with and watch them endlessly for validation. He represents the end of an era.

tybird

soulsinging wrote:

My brother was telling me about an article he read that said when he was a national news anchor, Cronkite was pulling something like 70% of the American audience. That's unreal. Kinda sad that that kind of consensus seems utterly impossible these days. Nowadays, instead of all of us looking for a newscaster that can be objective, honest, and reasonable and can be a trustworthy source of fact that we can draw on in a meaningful dialogue, we all pick a guy with a slant we agree with and watch them endlessly for validation. He represents the end of an era.

That was in the day of three national networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) and very little cable TV....No CNN....No Fox....it did seem to be a smaller world back then...or maybe a more isolated world.....I can remember when one of the local stations began broadcasting 24 hours a day....that was in the late 1970's.....T.V. has not matured past Cronkite's standards.....it has just gotten a lot wider at the waist.