Cronkite:Quest for media profits hurts (The Dinosaur speaks)

Hemscott Group Limited ^ | 2/8/07 | AFX

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Pressures by media companies to generate ever-greater profits are threatening the very freedom the nation was built upon, former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite warned Thursday."

Can't have profits when you pander to only 20% of the American populace.

Death to the Dinosaurs!!!

[alrea]

MSM still holds power enough to embolden terrorists and destroy the credibility of our Executive

And keep a democrats winning office.

[norwaypinesavage]

News Readers are just entitled to become old, rich and senile. Walter sure has a lock on all three.

[vamoose]

Walter speaks: oooy-il, oooy-il!

[Enchante]

"The former anchor urged owners of media companies -- newspapers and broadcast alike -- to recognize they have special civil responsibilities."

This pompous gasbag ought to work on all his fellow MSM-dinosaurs, urging the hordes of left-liberal MSM frauds (so-called editors, reporters, and columnists) "to recognize that THEY have special civil responsibilities" -- such as honest, accurate, vigorous reporting of all the matters that the MSM works so hard to distort..........

[oblomov]

Ah, the good old days...

[Spok]

"The former anchor urged owners of media companies -- newspapers and broadcast alike -- to recognize they have special civil responsibilities."

I'd settle for them just telling the truth; nothing more, nothing less. Without the lies, the spin, the feigned outrage and the glaring omissions. It's not rocket science.

[pgkdan]

Who cares what this lying, socialist, anti-American globalist POS has to say? He has long since out lived his usefullness.

[D-Chivas]

It's hard to believe that Uncle Walter outlived Anna Nicole Smith.

[Calvin Locke]

Cronkite and Columbia. Both are going to burn for eternity.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Walter Cronkite is an untreated alcoholic so it's not strange he would confuse himself with a real journalist. Cronkite was a copy reader. In television "news" there are copy writers who rewrite wire copy (AP, UPI, etc.) and rewrite stories stolen out of newspapers. There are also some real "reporters" who travel around with a camera crew and cover things. Then you have people like Cronkite who are copy readers. These are people with a good broadcast voice and a pleasant appearance who read copy handed to them in front of a camera. "Ted" on the Mary Tyler Moore Show was fictional but very true to life. Dan Rather was also a copy reader. In 2004, he and his idiot producer accepted as real, fake documents that wouldn't fool a summer intern at a rural weekly newspaper. Television news, like Hollywood, elevates the most mediocre minds into stardom and wealth.

[reagan_fanatic]

Enjoy your retirement, STFU and leave the rest of us alone, Walter.

[Night Hides Not]

I remember Cronkite pausing to wipe tears from his eyes when he announced the death of JFK.

Today, I have no doubt that most journalists would wipe tears of joy from their eyes if a tragedy befell President Bush or VP Cheney.

[EndWelfareToday]

'Consolidation and cost cutting may be good for the bottom line in the short term but that isn't necessarily good for the country or the health of the news business in the long term,' he said.

Hallelujah! Anything that slams the door on you Marxist vultures (especially when that "anything" is free enterprise) I have to say, "Hallelujah." Hallelujah!

[gcruse]

In Walter's World, trying to stem billion dollar losses translates into "generate ever-greater profits." Of course, his tribe sees reductions in rates of growth as cuts, so what can you do? it's just another one of those days filled with events that alter and illuminate our times.

[Gay State Conservative]

If only Cronkite had only told the country in the 60's or 70's that he was a Communist rather than wait until after he retired....

Oh,and Walter.....here's hoping that you live long enough to see the wind farm in Nantucket Sound in full operation from the front yard of your multi-million dollar summer bungalow.

[ShawTaylor]

'It's not just the journalist's job at risk here. It's American democracy. It is freedom.'


The biggest threat to American democracy is the deranged, loony left, America-hating, terrorist loving, ultra based liberal media.
Deport these vermin to Siberia and American democracy will get a very big boost, from the huge reduction in disinformation and garbage that Americans are being subject to every single day by the liberal media low lives

[TaxRelief]

I was there when he made his first parachute jump. He shook with fear and wouldn't have gone through with it if his job wasn't on the line...

[mdittmar]

I was there when he made his first parachute jumpWhere was that?

cronkite jumped out of a plane?

Do you have a link?

[Night Hides Not]

It's hard to believe that Uncle Walter outlived Anna Nicole Smith.

It's hard to believe that Hugh Hefner outlived Anna Nicole Smith.