Posted on 01/17/2011 11:49:52 AM PST by pissant
NPRs 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 didnt happen when 63 million people watched Walter Cronkite every night.
Tim Graham at Newsbusters confirms Simons 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 Fords life or the wild over exaggeration about the size of Cronkites nightly audience)
And lets not forget the vicious rabbit attack on Jimmy Carter.
Simons 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, hes fooling himself.
In a literal sense, Simon might be correct things like this just didnt happen when 63 million people watched Walter Cronkite every night. Thats because 63 million people didnt watch Walter Cronkite every night. Nothing like this happened when 30 million people watched Katie Couric every night either.
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Mental illness, has to be.
very true. Then again, who wants to go back and check everything reported during that time?
“Bush, Palin, Rush OR Beck to blame??”
Remember Agnew? Nixon? I’m sure there were other Emmanuel Goldstein characters back then. Lt Calley, and who was his CO?
Cronkite has the mind of an amoeba.
And that’s on the good days.
He’s an Obama-hole now, and he was a bigger Obama-hole back when he was one of the few that the MSM permitted us to watch.
May an unclean yak back into his linen closet.
Busing (desegregation) “disturbances”.
Aboveground nuclear testing, Duck and Cover, Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis (in which Kennedy did not know there were warheads on Cuba or that LeMay had armed and launched every B52 in flyable condition and was having them fly “racetrack” patterns centered on Moscow. Khrushchev knew both facts).
Ahhhhhhh, I long for the snow filled winters of northern Michigan when all I did was ski, ski,ski..and mom would cook wonderful dinners. However, I don't long for the same snow filled driveway that I was forced to shovel after every snowfall............considering the fact that I was merely a young teenager, that was child slavery and abuse!
WC was CBS news anchor from 1962 to 1981. Plenty of war, assassination and violence during that time. The million plus slaughtered in the killing fields of Cambodia in the 1970s was I would say noteworthy.
Vietnam was lost when we agreed to let France keep Indochina after WWII.
Nam Vet
They had Nixon..
Lets add...
Richard Speck 8 student nurses dead by strangulation and knifing.1966
Charles Whitman Texas Tower Shooter-14 dead, with a bolt action rifle and M-1 carbine. 1966
Arthur Bremer, attempted assasinnation of George Wallace,1972
Mark James Robert Essex (1949 January 7, 1973) killed 9 people, including 5 police officers, and wounded 13 others in New Orleans between December 31, 1972 and January 7, 1973. Weapon-Ruger .44 mag Deerslayer.
Lynette Squeeky Frome, and Sarah Jane Moore attempts on Gerrald Fords life.
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