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?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
As much a "journalist" as his successor, Dan Pinko Blather.
True, worthless is far too kind.
And still revered by the leftists (meaning all) in the MSM.
It is a pleasure to watch.
It's like a cleansing.
Yes, like an enema to be precise....
LOL. that sums it up!
And his rocket looks straight. :-)
I thought Wally Cronkite died of AIDS several years ago.
I saw this on MSNBC this morning. We should immediately pull out of Iraq because Uncle Walter thinks so and Uncle Walter knows best. Remember Viet Nam.
Amen. He was a fool back in the day ( I know...I was there) and he's a bigger tottering fool today trying to be somebody. I'm glad the President isn't desperate to listen to this guy and others like him. These guys still think they are somebody. Someone should tell them they are not.
If only....
I think Uncle Walt was a big fan of Uncle Joe.
Did he break down and cry when Reagan won election in 1980?
they are more insidious than terrorists..
Exactly, and before Westmloreland v CBS.
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. '
George Orwell
That is actually the picture of a/the Wal-mart greeter who used some garbage bags to make the costume he has on and was fired as a result.
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