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American Masters: Walter Cronkite: Witness to History (on PBS tonight)

Posted on 07/26/2006 6:12:31 PM PDT by FoxPro

Although he stepped down as CBS anchor 25 years ago, Walter Cronkite's legacy continues today. CC Stereo


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KEYWORDS: cronkite; defundpbs; liberalmedia; liberaloldcranks; seebsnews
Comments on this show please. How do mature democracies deal with media monopolies? How did Ronald Reagan pierce through this this media smoke screen?
1 posted on 07/26/2006 6:12:31 PM PDT by FoxPro
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To: FoxPro

A constitutional republic such as ours should have put that enemy propagandist in a firing squad.


2 posted on 07/26/2006 6:20:55 PM PDT by pissant
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To: FoxPro

Did this thread get pulled already?


3 posted on 07/26/2006 6:20:57 PM PDT by FoxPro (jroehl2@yahoo.com)
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Do liberals ever die? (Or even just stfu?)
4 posted on 07/26/2006 6:25:18 PM PDT by clintonh8r (To err is human, to forgive, divine. Neither is Marine Corps policy.)
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Walter Cronkite's legacy

Bah. The day I heard Walter Crankbite speak of the evolution of man from apes as indisputable fact, for me, that's been his legacy.

He's one of those retirees who really ought to go quietly into the night but, for some reason, just can't bring himself to do it.

5 posted on 07/26/2006 6:26:22 PM PDT by newgeezer ("Hezbollah" is deceptive. The accurate translation is "Hezb'Allah"; it means 'party of Allah')
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I am taping the segment.

Just got this gem on Walter. It is regarding the tragic end of President Kennedy. It calls the effect of Walter's reporting on the tragedy. A voice intoned thus:

He became America's clergyman. He became a Rabbi, a priest, a minister. He was saying to America, everything is all right.

It seems that the media people are in actuality, bigger than the news itself. Oh, someone gets to Cronkite on Vietnam. Heads down, look in. (laughs).

6 posted on 07/26/2006 6:42:52 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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When he announced on air that America lost the Tet Offense in Vietnam, and that we were doomed for failure, that was the last I ever turned him on. He's a commie!


7 posted on 07/26/2006 6:44:42 PM PDT by moonman (`)
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Oh no. A terrible realization. I am rather slow perhaps. The coverage of Vietnam by these people, including a Morley Safer.

For the reporting on Vietnam, now read the reporting on Iraq.

Just my take on it though.

8 posted on 07/26/2006 6:50:58 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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Oh man! I almost tuned in to watch it when I thought the show was called "American B@stards" not Masters!


9 posted on 07/26/2006 9:21:28 PM PDT by Bommer
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