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Posted on 01/17/2011 11:49:52 AM PST by pissant
NPR’s Scott Simon longs for the peaceful days of Walter Cronkite, when horrible events like the Tucson shootings were unheard of:
SIMON: People have observed over the past few years, for example, that, you know, this just didn’t happen when 63 million people watched Walter Cronkite every night.
Tim Graham at Newsbusters confirms Simon’s claims about the peacefulness of the Cronkite era**.
(**Not counting the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X, the shooting of George Wallace, two attempts on Gerald Ford’s life or the wild over exaggeration about the size of Cronkite’s nightly audience)
And let’s not forget the vicious rabbit attack on Jimmy Carter.
Simon’s laughable claim is perhaps more of a mourning for a bygone era when dinosaur media ruled the earth and a scant few voices controlled dissemination of information to America than it is an indictment of the current political climate, but either way, he’s fooling himself.
In a literal sense, Simon might be correct — things like this just didn’t happen when 63 million people watched Walter Cronkite every night. That’s because 63 million people didn’t watch Walter Cronkite every night. Nothing like this happened when 30 million people watched Katie Couric every night either.
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Terry Gross is more of a man than Scott Simon.
There’s a word for people like Simon - reactionary.
Or fuddy-duddy. That’s accurate too.
In MY day we had 3 stations, they all broadcast the same statist bull cr@p AND WE LIKED IT!!.
Ask the ‘Nam guys on The Wall if Cronkite’s coverage of the war brought more peaceful times.
I get chills wondering how many lies were spread by the “big three” networks and their Democrat newsrooms during the decades prior to the ascendance of “new media” (talk radio, cable news, and the internet). A mere 15 or 20 years ago, Dan Rather would have gotten away with his fake “National Guard memo”. How many fakes, forgeries, and lies did he and his ilk actually SUCCEED in getting away with for at least 50 years? We’ll probably never know.
Don’t forget the Vietnamese people too, when the USA left. Peace.
You left out one small item. The Demorats defended Viet Nam just when things were turning around.
People have observed
Couching his personal opinion in an ersatz reportorial product.
Cronkite would have said "I observed". It would have been a lie but it wouldn't have been namby pamby passive.
I recall how returning Viet Nam vets were treated so honorably and nonconfrontationally by the libs.
What an utterly ludicrous statement to be made by someone who calls himself a “journalist?”
Oh yeah, then there was that incident where protestors burned down a few rotc buildings and then the National Guard opened fire on them - killing 4 people at Kent State.
Times were really peaceful then.
I wonder what Sarah Palin did to incite all that violence?
That’s also typical gotcha tactic lefty big media types use on conservatives:
People have observed that you beat your wife. Is that still going on?
No I didn’t. Westmoreland nearly pulled it off. He wiped out the VC during Tet. A senior VC general actually attested to this fact in lectures at several military academies.
We had literally won. The VC didn’t even have 30 days left by this general’s point of view.
Cronkite and Rather made sure we lost.
Newark riots, Chicago riots at the 68 Rat convention, Watts burning to the ground, NYC blackout with all the looting and pillaging.
Yup nothing happened when 63 million watched Crockite
or the Weather Underground, the SLA, etc..
How did they ever do it without having Bush, Palin, Rush OR Beck to blame???
He wants to go back to the days that they could lie to us and get away with it... npr=NATIONAL PROPAGANDA RADIO
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Not to mention the race baiting “progress” of institutionalized reverse discrimination w/o question.
I think that Scott Simon is longing for the days before femi-nazies dominated our culture.
Walter Cronkite was a far leftist with little or no competition; he dominated the airwaves pretending to be neutral. He was not a nice person for this country.
We lived that era...funny...we don’t long for those days.
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