Walter Cronkite has passed away

[The Mikado]

RIP.

[Marokai Backbeat]

A very sad day for journalism. May this legendary man RIP.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

RIP 

Americans all over are saddened by the news.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

R.I.P.

Definitely one of the greatest journalist in entire world history

[Kaine for Senate '18]

A very sad day for journalism. May this legendary man RIP.

[Mint]

I'm not going to lie, I hated this man like I do most of the MSM. Still, I'm sorry for his family. RIP.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I'm not going to lie, I hated this man like I do most of the MSM.

Coburn, is that you?

[Lief 🗽]

RIP. I guess real journalism is dead as well now.

[muon2]

His was the voice of the news as I grew up. Given the age distribution on the Forum, I expect that many here would have a hard time understanding the dominant presence he had. It surprised few when pollsters identified him as "the most trusted man in America."

[RIP Robert H Bork]

Rest in peace.

[King]

RIP

I bet they got a good nightly newscast up in heaven these days with Brinkley, Cronkite, and Jennings up there.

Oh and Peter Finch as Howard Beale.

[Franzl]

RIP, a truly great journalist.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

RIP, FF

[Eraserhead]

When LBJ lost Cronkite, he knew he had lost the country. RIP.

[Silent Hunter]

Rest In Peace.

[JSojourner]

I normally wouldn't cut/paste something I wrote in another thread, but I am allowing myself some attention-whore spammage for just this one time.  Blame it on two threads for the same subject, my emotions today as a newsman, whatever.  But here goes...


Speaking as a journalist, all I can say is...Walter was one of the last good ones and definitely the last great one. President Obama couldn't have said it better. "Walter never let us down". His insatiable curiousity, skepticism and passion for fairness were my model...though I never managed to attain anything remotely close to his level of excellence.  The story is told of Cronkite, at the height of his fame, leaving a rubber chicken dinner because he heard sirens.  A simple apartment fire.  But Cronkite had to know.  God give us more like him.  And please God, fewer entertainers, demagogues and icons of mediocrity. 

Murrow, Brinkley, Jennings, Chancellor, Russert and now Cronkite...all gone.  And Bob Scheiffer, Mike Wallace, Sam Donaldson and Bill Moyers aren't getting any younger.

Rest in Peace, Mr. Cronkite. You are sorely missed.

[Democratic Hawk]

RIP

[Ronnie]

I did not agree with much of his politics, but he was a legendary journalist who everyone respected.  Rest in peace.

[pogo stick]

RIP

[Governor PiT]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite#Political_activism



He was also a proponent of limited world government on the American federalist model, writing fund-raising letters for the World Federalist Association (now Citizens for Global Solutions). In accepting the 1999 Norman Cousins Global Governance Award at the ceremony at the United Nations, Cronkite said:[41]

"It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order. But the American colonies did it once and brought forth one of the most nearly perfect unions the world has ever seen."
Cronkite contrasted his support for accountable global government with the opposition to it by politically active Christian fundamentalists in the United States:[42]

"Even as with the American rejection of the League of Nations, our failure to live up to our obligations to the United Nations is led by a handful of willful senators who choose to pursue their narrow, selfish political objectives at the cost of our nation’s conscience.They pander to and are supported by the Christian Coalition and the rest of the religious right wing. Their leader, Pat Robertson, has written that we should have a world government but only when the messiah arrives. Any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil! Well join me… I'm glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan."

[Coburn In 2012]

HP

Cronkite was a sellout and a joke. 

[Torie]

I have mixed emotions. Walter had an excellent voice quality, and was a pleasant chap, but sometimes was not that well informed (he relied on other CBS reporters to be the heavy lifters as to information or analysis), and he was biased in the sense that he allowed his voice intonations to make clear his opinion of an event, issue or comment made by some public figure all too often (and yes, almost always on the "liberal" side).  In his later years he got to be a bit of a crank, including that bizarre comment that he thought Karl Rove probably arranged the Bin Laden video right before the 2000 election.

I much preferred Jennings and Chancellor as anchors.

[JSojourner]

I have mixed emotions. Walter had an excellent voice quality, and was a pleasant chap, but sometimes was not that well informed (he relied on other CBS reporters to be the heavy lighters as to information of analysis), and he was biased in the sense that he allowed his voice intonations to make clear his opinion of an event, issue or comment made by some public figure all too often (and yes, almost always on the "liberal" side).  In his later years he got to be a bit of a crank, including that bizarre comment that he thought Karl Rove probably arranged the Bin Laden video right before the 2000 election.

I much preferred Jennings and Chancellor as anchors.

Peter Jennings had, in my opinion, the best and most pleasant delivery of any anchor...ever. 

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

RIP FF

I think he was a HP though when the prick retired leaving Dan Rather to bore everyone for the next umpteen years.