And that's the way Cronkite still is (BARRRRFFFFF!!!!!)

LA Times ^ | September 30, 2005 | Scott Martelle

[Chi-townChief]

Sounds more like a lament for a lost monopoly.

[Rodney King]

our employers, those who are more concerned with profits than they are with performance,"

Profits are performance. If you don't think so, put up your own money to start a network and ignore profits in favore of "performance".

[Chi-townChief]

BTW, this is an excerpt.

[mikrofon]

Former "CBS Evening News" anchor Walter Cronkite might be a lion in winter

"Uncle Walter" is a-lyin' right now...

[Gay State Conservative]

Marxist columns and opposition to a wind farm off of Cape Cod,where he owns some (very expensive,no doubt) real estate. Turns out that "America's Anchorman" is just another limousine liberal.

But that shouldn't surprise anyone who's been paying attention over the years.

[theDentist]

Well, he's right in one regard... do any of us really give a **** that Celebrity A and Celebrity B got engaged while filming an inane movie in Acapulco?

[MNJohnnie]

Is this guy got Alzheimers or WHAT? This is some of the stupidest crap I have ever heard. This is stupid even for Walter the Commie wanna be. Talk about a sever case of projecting their own flaws onto the people they disagree with. Must really piss him off that all us little Peons don't need him and his 'enlighted ones'. What a good little Stalin wanna be he is.

[uncbob]

"We [as a nation] are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders," Cronkite, 88, said

Well 50% don't vote and of the other 50% almost half vote for the democrats so I can't argue with him here

[stylin19a]

"as deaf as a damn post."

He must be deaf. Somebody mostly likely told him "He was dense as a post".

[Aussiebabe]

actually, I think it was a typo, it was "dumb" not "deaf".

[frankjr]

[andie74]

In a brief interview, Cronkite said he fears the blogosphere, still in its "infancy," could threaten the standing of mainstream media as a news source for consumers already confused by cable's "opinion journalism."

Crackup, we want you fearful. You're just better that way. And, BTW, I like being confused by opinion journalism -- at least these guys on cable aren't afraid to say that they are editorializing!

[Cinnamon]

lmao... BARRRRFFFFF!!!!!

[TX Bluebonnet]

"We [as a nation] are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders," Cronkite, 88, said

The man does make a good point.

[Artemis Webb]

It was about 1974 and I would have been 13 years old. The CBS news was on and Cronkite was raising his eyebrows over some accusation against Nixon. My father...who was a Nixon man ...and quiet by nature finally went apesh*t. "THAT CRONKITE IS NOTHING BUT A GDAMN COMMUNIST!!" It was John Chancellor forever after that, which was not a great improvement but at least Uncle Walter was banished.

[Bigg Red]

Cronkite said, "our democracy, our republic, I think, is in serious danger."

&&
The danger comes from commie-lovin', monica-envying,
so-called journalists like you, Walter. Put a sock in it!

[BerniesFriend]

" Former "CBS Evening News" anchor Walter Cronkite might be a , but during a brief visit to Los Angeles earlier this week he showed that he's still a lion.

No one is the Lion in Winter as the great Peter O'Toole..

[BerniesFriend]

oops..the article read that commie cronkite was the lion in winter..I missed that part..sorry..

[Major_Risktaker]

We [as a nation] are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders," Cronkite, 88, said

I would ask Cronkite this question. When was the last election Americans were educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders?

So what election do you think he would say?

[youthgonewild]

Walter Cronkite set the standard for TV journalism which has never been matched. He may be partisan now, but he was unmatched as a journalist in his time working at CBS. Way too many sour grapes flying in here about America's most trusted man.