I’m obviously in the minority here, but these are some pretty harsh comments. Yes, he was a liberal in his personal beliefs but with few exceptions, he adhered to a standard of journalism that has been lost. Everyone has personal beliefs, it’s whether they allow them to affect the way they do their job that counts.
I’m not defending him, I didn’t know him personally, but when I think of how what we now call the MSM has damaged this country and continues to do so day after day, I’d welcome the likes of Uncle Walter back into the anchor chair.
In 1968, Cronkite single-handedly turned the Tet offensive victory into a US loss in the eyes of the American public. Walter Cronkite, America’s most respected journalist at that time, suggested that America wasn’t winning the war. It was inaccurate, but no matter, it created the first significant crack in President Johnson’s belief that he could win both the war and re-election.
Growing reluctance in America to support a war we weren’t winning led Nixon to pull the troops out...and the Democrats reneiged on their promise to contiue supporting the South Vietnamese with arms.
R.I.P. Walter Cronkite - pathetic traitor and patriarch to the current MSM.
I understand that you mean well.
But in Cronkites time his blatant partinsanship and prejudices and worship of JFK and LBJ were accepted as honest journalism as there was simply no other source of information for thee and me.
He and CBS were worse than MSNBC and Olberman, but there was no context.
Some of the comments are simply shocking.
We can - should be able to - separate politics, commerce and personal lives.
“when I think of how what we now call the MSM has damaged this country and continues to do so day after day, I’d welcome the likes of Uncle Walter back into the anchor chair.”
Sorry, but I know people who died in that mess this ba$stard helped to create. So, in less than a month we lost a child molester and a traitor . . . Worthless human beings!
You must be joking. How old are you?
Hear, hear.
Allow me to educate you, my FRiend. "Uncle Walter" came on the air one evening and declared that the American troops in Vietnam suffered a crushing defeat in the Tet Offensive.
The only problem was, he was lying and he knew it. Decades later, in the autobiography of one of the North Vietnamese generals did we learn that not only was the Tet Offensive NOT a defeat for the American troops, it was such a resounding victory for them that the North Vietnamese were on the verge of capitulating. Until, that is, they saw "Uncle Walter's" news reports. The report demoralized American troops and energized our enemies.
Your "Uncle Walter" is single-handedly responsible for the deaths of thousands of young American and Vietnamese troops as well as the innocent civilians who were caught in the crossfire between them. Had he reported the truth, the Vietnam War would have ended years earlier and there wouldn't be anywhere nearly as many names incribed on the Vietnam War Memorial Wall.
Still want to see the lying SOB back on the air?? He provided the model they all use today!!