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Walter Cronkite Gravely Ill
TVNewser.com ^ | June 18, 2009 | None

Posted on 06/18/2009 2:36:23 PM PDT by Beaten Valve

TVNewser has learned legendary CBS newsman Walter Cronkite, 92, who once held the title of "Most Trusted Man in America," is said to be gravely ill, according to multiple CBS News sources. The network began updating his obituary more than a week ago, a source adds.

CBS News executive Linda Mason, designated to speak on Cronkite's behalf, had no comment.

The avuncular Cronkite anchored "CBS Evening News" for 19 years, until 1981, when he was forced to retire. Dan Rather was named his successor. Cronkite maintained an office at CBS, where he was a special correspondent.

A native of St. Joseph, Mo., Cronkite made his mark as a World War II correspondent for United Press. He joined CBS in 1950 as a Washington correspondent. In 1962, he was named anchor of "CBS Evening News," then 15 minutes in length. The following year, it became network TV's first 30'minute weeknight newscast.

Cronkite's nightly sign-off -- "And that's the way it is..." - became part of the popular lexicon, and his gravelly voice was instantly recognizable. During his tenure, he led "Evening News" to first place in the Nielsen ratings.

Cronkite returned to "Evening News," in a manner of speaking, in September 2006, when he recorded the opening to the newscast with new anchor Katie Couric.

In an interview with this reporter in 2006, Cronkite was asked if he ever thought about death.

"When you get to be 89, you have to think about it a little bit. It doesn't prey on me, and it doesn't keep me awake nights. Occasionally, when I'm upset about something else, I think, 'My gosh, I don't know if I should do this or that because I'm not sure I'll be here that long to enjoy it.'"


TOPICS: Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cbs; cronkite; elderly; ill; oldcommie
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To: Beaten Valve

The colors yellow and red come to mind. Yellow journalism, and Red Communism.


101 posted on 06/18/2009 5:01:05 PM PDT by safisoft
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To: DuncanWaring
In 1944 he was reporting the news, from bombers over the heart of the Third Reich.


102 posted on 06/18/2009 5:03:24 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

Obviously he had better editors back then.


103 posted on 06/18/2009 5:06:20 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: abb

Vietnam was Ike’s operation for six years. - He trained 20,000 US special forces to read and write Vietnamese and Laotian, in preparation for the war. Two of my cousins were training officers in that program.


104 posted on 06/18/2009 5:06:32 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: Beaten Valve

Prayers for Walter Cronkite.


105 posted on 06/18/2009 5:08:10 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: Travis McGee

“Not by a long shot. That “honor” (sic) goes to the current resident of 1600 PA Ave”

Not yet..when N Korea nukes the west coast, maybe.


106 posted on 06/18/2009 5:17:28 PM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: editor-surveyor
Vietnam was Ike’s operation for six years. - He trained 20,000 US special forces to read and write Vietnamese and Laotian, in preparation for the war. Two of my cousins were training officers in that program.

No disagreement from me about that. But it is my opinion that it was Kennedy who escalated Vietnam past the point of no return. And he did so to try and make up for having his ass handed to him by Khrushchev at Vienna. And that in turn was a result of Kennedy's incompetent handling of the Bay of Pigs invasion.

107 posted on 06/18/2009 5:20:18 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

No argument on the BOP!


108 posted on 06/18/2009 5:22:25 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: Beaten Valve

Prayers for the family, but no tears from me when he hits room temp.


109 posted on 06/18/2009 5:27:30 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: catfish1957

Dang...they pulled the Persian babes thread!!!!!!


110 posted on 06/18/2009 5:29:43 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: Travis McGee

BUMP what you said.


111 posted on 06/18/2009 5:39:58 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Beaten Valve
Several times, over the years, I've picked up a mooring in Edgartown harbor in close proximity to Cronkite's multimillion dollar home ... his yacht moored nearby. My thoughts, each time ... interesting how liberal democ’rats hang out together. The harbor entrance (narrow) serviced by a ferry to Chappaquiddick Island is the small body of water Ted ‘the swimmer’ Kennedy traversed that fateful night the summer of 1969 ... in order to establish an alibi.
112 posted on 06/18/2009 5:51:41 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: Beaten Valve

Yawn..
Move along, nothing to see here.


113 posted on 06/18/2009 5:55:49 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: editor-surveyor
"Wiki is 99% propaganda and opinion."

Oh come on! Wiki is accurate about most things. And they provide extensive source links.
114 posted on 06/18/2009 6:20:10 PM PDT by Borges
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To: abb

I don’t know who has more blood on his hands, Cronkite or McNamara.


115 posted on 06/18/2009 6:57:45 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Borges

Wiki is totally undependable for anything, because they have such politically biased standards, and allow deliberate bias and censorship to rule their site.

Perhaps you’re a wikipedophile too?


116 posted on 06/18/2009 7:03:47 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: Lancey Howard

117 posted on 06/18/2009 7:17:33 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Beaten Valve

There was never a more vile man behind a mic. During the Vietnam War he helped ensure the butchery of many thousands of his own countrymen with his anti-war propaganda disguised as news. He was complicit in the deaths of more Americans in Vietnam than the 9/11 terrorists were in New York City, and he did it by exploiting a special position of trust.


118 posted on 06/18/2009 7:20:01 PM PDT by behzinlea
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To: pgkdan
The most biased man in America.

I thought that was Obama. You know, pro-Taliban, pro-Al Qaida, anti-Israel, anti-American...

119 posted on 06/18/2009 7:24:17 PM PDT by NoPrisoners ("When in the course of human events...")
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To: AceMineral

“Why did so many believe what he said? Were those back in the 60s more credulous?”

Then as now, there were shiny things that sparkled.

To be very brief, it was probably more of an advertising slogan that evolved. (and of course there was the Kennedy association)


120 posted on 06/18/2009 7:52:59 PM PDT by This_far
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