Remembering Walter Cronkite

Chicago Sun Times ^ | 07/17/2009 | Robert Feder

[fiscon1]

Every day of my working life, I knew that Walter Cronkite was looking over my shoulder.

Literally it was true, since I can’t remember a time when there wasn’t a giant picture or two of him hanging on the walls of my office or propped up on my desk, peering down at me through those wise, sympathetic eyes and bushy eyebrows.

[B.O. Plenty]

I am saying nothhhhiiinnnngggggg.......

[Dacula]

And that is the way is WAS, now go away you POS. Watch out for the earthworms. they may not be as liberal as you.

[cripplecreek]

I measure him by today’s standard and he doesn’t seem half bad.

[DJ MacWoW]

About all I can say is it’s too bad there wasn’t an internet and FR sooner.

[DJ MacWoW]

Not bad at all if you ignore the Tet lie.

[cripplecreek]

Better than Olberman and pals.

[oldbrowser]

I measure him by today’s standard and he doesn’t seem half bad.

I see him as the "camel's nose under the tent" that led to the Orwellian world we now live in.

[DJ MacWoW]

When did they call a win for the US a loss and it was believed? We lost Viet Nam because Uncle Walter said so and sheeple believed him. We WON the Tet Offensive. We crushed them. He called it a draw.

See this FR thread.

Why I don’t mourn Walter Cronkite

[bigbob]

Good choice, it’s no longer acceptable to many on FR to say anything good about this man. Civil discourse used to frown on speaking ill of the dead, but...

[Will88]

A Cronkite was only possible in the three network days that gave news consumers very little choice. Thankfully, those days are over and there ways to respond to and counter the braying of his much diminished network anchor successors.

[SuziQ]

I'm sorry for Mr. Cronkite's family, as they've lost a loved one. I will not mourn his loss, however. I will not forget his duplicitous reporting during Vietnam. The way he framed his reports during early 1968, caused, I suspect, half of the Americans who listened to the news during that time to STILL believe that WE lost the Tet Offensive.

The constant negativity on the part of Cronkite and the other news readers convinced Americans that we could never win, and gave the 'peace activists' plenty of air time to manipulate public opinion. That left our military high and dry.

[KC_Conspirator]

Bad man, good death.