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Title: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: RocketMan on July 17, 2009, 10:21:57 PM: Walter Cronkite has passed on.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/17/eveningnews/main5170556.shtml?tag=breakingnews (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/17/eveningnews/main5170556.shtml?tag=breakingnews)

(CBS) The "most trusted man in America" is gone.

Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," has died. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his family by his side at his home in New York after a long illness. He was 92.
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: Ron on July 17, 2009, 10:22:50 PM: R.I.P

may God have mercy on his soul
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: Gewehr98 on July 17, 2009, 10:23:50 PM: Quote
may God have mercy on his soul

Huh? ???
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: Ron on July 17, 2009, 10:26:02 PM: Quote from: Gewehr98 on July 17, 2009, 10:23:50 PM
Huh? ???

You've never heard the term?

You don't want me to preach the gospel now and tell you how we are all sinners in need of Gods mercy do you?
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: Gewehr98 on July 17, 2009, 10:31:01 PM: Oh, I've heard the term, and seen it used to send off the exceptionally damned.

I never figured Walter Cronkite, who was a fixture in my youth from the 1960s onward, would merit that.
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: HankB on July 17, 2009, 10:46:53 PM: Once he left his job as ~~chief~~ ~~editorialist~~ network anchor for CBS, didn't he become rather infamous for condemning US actions, US policies, US government, US values, etc., even going so far as to say the US would have to give up sovereignty?

Oh, yeah, he did, during a world government speech:

One clip (comment is at about 4:58 time mark.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDQAgPjv94M
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: Bigjake on July 18, 2009, 12:23:49 AM: Call me when someone worthwhile passes....
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: Sergeant Bob on July 18, 2009, 01:03:04 AM: I shall not shed any tears over his passing...(nor Jane Fonda).
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas on July 18, 2009, 01:04:15 AM: Nope, don't know this guy either.
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: Cromlech on July 18, 2009, 06:58:56 AM: My first 'exposure' to the man was probably in an episode of The Simpsons. Well, he lived to a ripe old age, he didn't do too bad.
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: BryanP on July 18, 2009, 08:27:32 AM: I grew up watching Cronkite - I was 12 when he retired from CBS. Rest in peace.
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: MechAg94 on July 18, 2009, 09:14:17 AM: Quote from: HankB on July 17, 2009, 10:46:53 PM
Once he left his job as ~~chief~~ ~~editorialist~~ network anchor for CBS, didn't he become rather infamous for condemning US actions, US policies, US government, US values, etc., even going so far as to say the US would have to give up sovereignty?

Oh, yeah, he did, during a world government speech:

One clip (comment is at about 4:58 time mark.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDQAgPjv94M
He was also quoted as opposing the Vietnam War. I thought he said he was actively trying to turn public opinion against it as a news anchor.

He was before my time. I don't have any beef with him. I just don't see him as some great icon, at least not for me. That was back in the days when people had fewer choices on where they got their news from and didn't realize what they were missing.

Rest in Peace.
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: BryanP on July 18, 2009, 10:06:05 AM: Quote from: MechAg94 on July 18, 2009, 09:14:17 AM
He was before my time. I don't have any beef with him. I just don't see him as some great icon, at least not for me.
Rest in Peace.

Icon is the word. To give you an idea, when President Johnson decided not to run for re-election, he supposedly cited criticism from Cronkite as a deciding factor. "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America"
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: seeker_two on July 18, 2009, 01:17:38 PM: He was the Founding Father of leftist media bias...glad to see him retire from TV...sad to hear of his death....
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: Leatherneck on July 18, 2009, 04:54:27 PM: Quote
He was the Founding Father of leftist media bias...glad to see him retire from TV...sad to hear of his death....

This. Except, not so sad...

We all die.

TC
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: Waitone on July 18, 2009, 08:57:08 PM: He would sign off the news cast with "And that's the way it is . . . " to which my father would inevitably respond, "No, that's the way you say it is." Dad was waaay ahead of his time.
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: Hutch on July 18, 2009, 09:55:40 PM: Birmingham, AL in the sixties didn't even GET Cronkite. We had 2 VHF stations, one ABC, one ran CBS and NBC programming. I grew up on the Huntly-Brinkley report. "Good night, Chet." "Good night, David, and good night from NBC news."

Cronkite, as sooooo many other on-air newsies do, desperately wanted to be an opinion shaper, not a a reporter.
Title: Re: Walter Cronkite gone
Post by: stevelyn on July 19, 2009, 01:15:58 AM: Walter Cronkite was probably the first recognizable face and voice I remember growing up and according to my mother one of my first words. He was the face of the CBS network and the space program during it's glory days.

As I got older I disagreed with some of his liberal views, but I could still sit and watch him anchor the evening news and feel like I had been informed rather than indoctrinated. Nowadays I'm tempted to shoot my tv regardless of which network news is on.

RIP Mr. Cronkite. You were there in our living rooms with us during some very trying times and some very proud moments feeling the same things we were feeling.