Posted on 01/16/2006 6:41:42 AM PST by pissant
Walter Cronkite has been old for a really long time.
So long that he thinks it's a good idea to poke fun at people who stutter in front of a room of reporters.
So long that he remembers when the network news operations weren't required to make money.
So long that he thinks the effort of news operations to make money does not affect content.
So long that virtually every story he told at Winter TV Press Tour 2006 Sunday he'd told a dozen times before.
At age 89, Walter Cronkite hasn't been the anchor of the "CBS Evening News" since 1981, but no one has ever replaced him as The Most Trusted Man in America. And so his appearance at the tour to tout PBS's July "American Masters" biography on him drew The Reporters Who Cover Television to him like Jedi trainees at the feet of Yoda, gobbling up his every word on the state of journalism, politics and the war in Iraq:
Mr. Cronkite, can you talk about how that weekend you did a marathon anchor stint during the Kennedy assassination changed the way news is covered?
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If so, Slick has two. Maybe he is truly an example of the old saying, "Hornier that a two **** billy goat!"
I agree. And it won't bother me if it comes soon.
Not only a traitor, but a stinking communist too.
I did, and thought it was funny. We need MORE health and fitness contests, IMO.
"Mr. Cronkite, journalists are supposed to cover the story, not become the story. Yet, when you mouthed off about the Vietnam War being lost, you became the story. How, then, can you defend that, you billious piece of decrepit commie propaganda?"
Hey, the leftie scum in this country re-write history all the time. They call the USSR's commie dictaotorship "conservative" and the Nazi (Socialist) party "right wing". After Fidel dies, and the extent of his pathetic torture state is revealed, he'll be a GOP operative.
Respected, I suppose. But a leftwing activist nonetheless.
And stupid too.
I do recall that Dan Rather lied when he reported that a group of school children in Dallas cheered the assassination of President Kennedy.
There's an AOL poll on Cronkite's remarks. Every leftist idiot in America is calling his remarks "highly significant".
Well said.
"In his prime, he was a very respected journalist back when there was such a thing."
That was in a more innocent time when the public misplaced their trust in Television, and Cronkite in particular.
We will steamroll the lefties in this country so maybe they WILL finally move to Canada and France.
I can tell you first hand that all the black kids in my junior high classroom cheered when Reagan was shot.
that is a funny pic
Actually I was a journalism major in college during some of his prime time, in the 70s and I had little respect for him. He was famous as the mouth of television news with only Huntley/Brinkley as his competition but he never would have survived the internet blogosphere. I seldom watched Cronkite because his signoff of "And that's the way it is, this ___ day of ________, 19__" used to infuriate me because it sounded so omniscient and pompous.
Before the Internet...
Please tell me that is a photoshop.
Another example of GREAT FReeper comments. BTTT!
Worthless traitor who personally helped put a lot of names on the Vietnam memorial wall.
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