Walter Cronkite, whose steadying, avuncular presence made “The CBS Evening News’’ the dominant network news program for much of his 19 years as its anchorman, died yesterday in New York. He was 92.
Mr. Cronkite’s longtime chief of staff, Marlene Adler, said he died at 7:42 p.m. at his Manhattan home surrounded by family, the Associated Press reported. She said the cause of death was cerebral vascular disease.
Rest in Peace, Mr. Cronkite.
It's unfortunate that the journalistic ethics you embodied don't seem to have transferred to the current crop of feckless journalists. Where you spoke out against the heavy-handedness of Chicago politics in 1968, your current brethern were all-too-happy to turn a blind eye to the machinations that put our least qualified President into office. Can you imagine Dan Rather making this statement with any sort of veracity:
[Asked once whether he had opinions of his own, Mr. Cronkite replied heatedly:] “You bet I do. Very strong opinions. Yet I would never give them with the news because this would hurt my objectivity . . . I choose to do only unbiased reporting. I give you the news, and I don’t help you make the judgment.’’
Somewhere out there, Mary Mapes is laughing her ass off...
And that's the way it is.
2 comments:
Cronkite and ethics in the same sentence is an oxymoron of biblical proportions. He was just another liberal mouthpiece. The difference is that back then we had no point of comparison becauseABCBSNBC were all just slighty different voices of the same philosophy.
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Amen on Anon1
Cronkite & Co. were direct contributors to losing the Vietnam war.
The viewers of my parent's generation were not used to trying to sort the truth out of the BS spewed.
Walt was a lib journalist of the NYFT mold.
"It's not news, unless we print it" attitude embodied.
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