I don't mind that Cronkite was/is a flaming liberal. I think that people with such a view on life are generally wrong and/or naive, but its their right. Of course, when you're a television news anchor speaking to millions of people about the NEWS, simple decency and morality, let alone professional integrity, require that you report facts as news, and that you label your opinion as "Commentary" or something similar, so that your viewers can differentiate between fact and opinion.
Cronkite has apparently not abided by simple decency and morality, let alone professional integrity, since at least the late 1960's. He may be a wonderful person, a great father, husband, granfather, etc., but he's also a deceptive SOB who has no integrity.
"I don't mind that Cronkite was/is a flaming liberal. I think that people with such a view on life are generally wrong and/or naive, but its their right. Of course, when you're a television news anchor speaking to millions of people about the NEWS, simple decency and morality, let alone professional integrity, require that you report facts as news"
My problem with the pompous jackasses is the way they puff themselves up and recite from their leftist handbook that they are "Journalists' who are "Objective", "Speaking truth to Power" and "unbiased presenters of facts and events free of bias or partisanship"
Balderdash, Uncle Walter was as objective as Pol Pot!
I had always liked him because of his involvement with the space program. What a disappointment to find out what a despicable person he really is. I wonder how many of our soldier's deaths can be attributed to his biased reporting.
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WALTER CRONKITE = DAN RATHER
DAVID SHAW: RATHER's work 'Shoddy, slipshod' not LIBERAL..?
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227809/posts
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