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Walter Cronkite has Died, RIP Walter.
With you goes the faintly beating heart of journalism:
I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause—but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen.
Walter Cronkite, the legendary TV news anchor once known as the "most trusted man in America," has died at the age of 92.
With his passing, a gold standard for integrity in journalism has been lost. So many of us grew up with his face in our living room. "When Cronkite closed his evening reports with the line, 'And that's the way it is', no one questioned that it was true."
So many of us learned of the big traumas in our nation's history--Jack, Martin, Bobby, My Lai-- from him, he delivered the bad
news directly to us, in our own homes, it was an intimate act.
He was giant, an icon. He will be, and already is, missed.
I can’t say that I approve of round-the-clock, day-after-day for a week or more coverage of anyone’s death - but given what the tv networks did to memorialize Tim Russert, they “owe” Cronkite a month’s worth, at least.
Part of the coming of idiocracy is the realization, as each one passes on, that these thoughtful, reasonable, intelligent and humane people are, for the most part, not being replaced by their peers, but by psychotic fascists who scream 'GETOFFMYPHONE!!!' on 24 hour cable news circus shows.
It is beyond sad in many ways.
I am so sorry. Not for Walter, but for us. He was a standard along with E. R. Murrow who were among the founding fathers of broadcast journalisim. They were honest, respected us and respected and honored what their job was as members of the Fourth Estate, but also, what the role of the press was in a healthy democracy. How ironic that on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 and the Moon landing that he should leave us. Now we are left with Glenn Beck's, Limburgers, et al. We are lucky to have the likes of K.O., Rachael and Bill Moyers, but his example seems fading away. I am proud that I was able to spend sometime in his time. I hope others in the future will be blessed with his like. If not, I fear for our future.
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Posted on Saturday, July 18 @ 00:29:44 EDT by glenda |
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