Film at 11: And that's the way it is, July 17, 2009.

[athelind]

Walter Cronkite, Dead at 92

The man they called The Most Trusted Man in America -- and really, has anyone else come along worthy of the title come along since he retired? -- died today, in the middle of the the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission that he covered so memorably.

He was a journalist, by God, and there are damned few of them left today, in the mainstream media or on the net.

The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed. -- Walter Cronkite, 1996

Good night, Uncle Walter.

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Comments

[araquan.livejournal.com]

"The misfortune with broadcasting today is that all -- even including [CNN], which is dedicated to the news -- do not take enough time to give us all of the facts and the background."

-- Walter Cronkite, 2005

[paka.livejournal.com]

My arch-conservative, ex-full-bird, high school history teacher despised Cronkite for how apparently singlehandedly the man had sabotaged America's war effort in Vietnam.

I think that derision is, in its own way, much higher praise than anything I could say.

[foofers.livejournal.com]

There've been maybe a dozen truly great reporters. Cronkite was six of them.