storyWalter Leland Cronkite, a legendary reporter and anchorman who was once voted the "most trusted man in America" died today at age 92.
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Walter Cronkite Dead
storyWalter Leland Cronkite, a legendary reporter and anchorman who was once voted the "most trusted man in America" died today at age 92.
*SASQUATCH IS WATCHING*
Sorry bout that,
1. He was a stand up guy.
2. He will be missed.
3. May he rest in peace.
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SirJamesofTexas
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He was a pioneer news anchor and seemed like an all around good guy, he will be remembered well.
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I lost respect for the guy long ago. He opened a journalistic can of worm by injecting his opinion into the news..wrong then and look what we have now.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/...am_and_th.htmlOver time, his words became a watershed marking the place where the gradual erosion of the MSM’s credibility began.
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May he rest....?
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."
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I didn't watch much TV during Cronkite's era, though of course I've heard of him and know who he was. But I'm way short on details.
Was he the first of the journalists who showed how it should be done (in a good way)?
Or was he the first of the journalists who began mixing his opinion with what should have been unbiased news, leaving out some things he didn't agree with while boosting things he did agree with, etc? Basically the progenitor of the Brokaws, Rathers etc.?
Can anyone fill me in here?
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By my reckoning, it wasn't until Vietnam that he started injecting his opinion into the his reports. Even then, he didn't say anything the rest of the nation wasn't thinking. I don't recall much opinion after that, until he retired anyway. After retirement he was more vocal in his liberal views.
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Was it Cronkite who announced during a newscast, after the Tet offensive, that we had lost the war?
"The social contract exists so that everyone doesn’t have to squat in the dust holding a spear to protect his woman and his meat all day every day. It does not exist so that the government can take your spear, your meat, and your woman because it knows better what to do with them." - Instapundit.com
Over 40 Victim of Fate
Yeppers.Originally Posted by Little-Acorn
To which Johnson famously said, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost the country."
Some say this played a role in Johnson's decision to not seek a second term.
"I am allergic to piety, it makes me break out in rash judgements." - Penn Jillette
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered." - Robert G. Ingersoll
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He was the first of the liberal (communist) reporters.
He did declare the Vietnam war lost following the TET offensive.
He taught the media how to manipulate the news and therefore control the people.
I'm surprised there isn't 24/7 coverage going now.
Hopefully his buddy jimmah will follow soon.
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