[pissant]

Not to mention all that peaceful "rhetoric" from Bill Ayers and his ilk, the Black Panthers, the vietnam protesters, Charles Manson, the Hells Angels, Jim Jones, the NYC criminal class, the mafia, the serial killers, the communist infiltrators, etc etc.

[rockrr]

Ah, the good old days ;-)

[Navy Patriot]

NPR Host Longs for More Peaceful Era of Walter Liar Cronkite

There, fixed the title for Ya.

[screaminsunshine]

Hush Rush. Control the internet. We will control the vertical and We will control the horizontal.

[LeonardFMason]

Where is that old Atheist Walter Cronkite?

[Redleg Duke]

Don't forget how Cronkite thew the entire 'Nam War by outright lying to the American People about the '68 Tet Offensive!

And don't forget how he was actively aided and abetted by Dan Rather, Bureau Chief in Saigon!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Because Wally was a one-man Saul Alinsky campaign.

[mountainlion]

A more peaceful time like during Viet Nam?

[DBrow]

“when horrible events like the Tucson shootings were unheard of: “

I think he means not used for political gain.

Besides, there was Viet Nam, Cronkite used Tet68 as propaganda to “prove” we were losing and “end the war”. And said so in his autobiography.

Oh the good old days when there were only three networks working together to bring us “news”!

[Lancey Howard]

Simon’s laughable claim is perhaps more of a mourning for a bygone era when dinosaur media ruled the earth and a scant few voices controlled dissemination of information to America

That's it. Nailed it.

[The Toll]

I would like to go back to that time also, and punch Cronkite in his lying commie face on air!

[sionnsar]

Krankheit. Appropriate.

[clearcarbon]

Cronkite didn’t make the times. The times made Cronkite.

[1raider1]

Five evenings a week Walter would tell America those things he felt were newsworthy and when he was finished he would say... “and THAT’S THE WAY IT IS”. What he didn’t say was... “Take what I say or nothing”.

[billorites]

Terry Gross is more of a man than Scott Simon.

[DManA]

There’s a word for people like Simon - reactionary.

Or fuddy-duddy. That’s accurate too.

In MY day we had 3 stations, they all broadcast the same statist bull cr@p AND WE LIKED IT!!.

[Free Vulcan]

Ask the ‘Nam guys on The Wall if Cronkite’s coverage of the war brought more peaceful times.

[DManA]

Notice the passive tone.

People have observed

Couching his personal opinion in an ersatz reportorial product.

Cronkite would have said "I observed". It would have been a lie but it wouldn't have been namby pamby passive.

[jda]

I recall how returning Viet Nam vets were treated so honorably and nonconfrontationally by the libs.

[crescen7]

Oh yeah, then there was that incident where protestors burned down a few rotc buildings and then the National Guard opened fire on them - killing 4 people at Kent State.

Times were really peaceful then.

I wonder what Sarah Palin did to incite all that violence?

[EQAndyBuzz]

Newark riots, Chicago riots at the 68 Rat convention, Watts burning to the ground, NYC blackout with all the looting and pillaging.

Yup nothing happened when 63 million watched Crockite