Cronkite Gets Candid

Fox News ^ | 22 August 2003 | Eric Burns

[demlosers]

Walter Cronkite was a CBS News anchorman for almost two decades. He has been a syndicated newspaper columnist for fewer than two weeks. Already, though, he has addressed one of journalism

[Mo1]

The majority of young men and women who enter journalism do so not because they want to report the news but because they want to make a difference in society. In other words, they want to report certain kinds of news. They do not want to convey facts or explain processes; they want to shine spotlights on abuse. In some cases they are motivated by idealism; in others, by the hope that some of the light will reflect back on them.

They .. including Cronkite could care less about the truth .. they are more interested in reshaping the public's opinion to THEIR point of view

[Cold Heat]

The majority of young men and women who enter journalism do so not because they want to report the news but because they want to make a difference in society. In other words, they want to report certain kinds of news. They do not want to convey facts or explain processes; they want to shine spotlights on abuse. In some cases they are motivated by idealism; in others, by the hope that some of the light will reflect back on them.

You have it spot on.

in my brainwashed college days, I considered journalism for most of those reasons. The job is notoriously low paid. The rewards for them are the possibilities to effect social change. (liberal version)

[woofie]

As a conservative I dont want to make the world a better place I just want to profit from the sufferings of others ...that and get laid

[Radix]

Cronkite is a liberal fraud who was imposed upon Americans in the days before the Internet. Journalism is a serious "art" and liberals have corrupted that just as they corrupt virtually everything in our culture.

 

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Main Entry: jour·nal·ism
Pronunciation: 'j&r-n^&l-"i-z&m
Function: noun
Date: 1833
1 a : the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media b : the public press c : an academic study concerned with the collection and editing of news or the management of a news medium
2 a : writing designed for publication in a newspaper or magazine b : writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation c : writing designed to appeal to current popular taste or public interest

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

There is nothing conspiratorial about the liberalism in the Fourth Estate; it is, rather, in the nature of the business, in the nature of those who are drawn to it.

IOW, the nature of journalism is to emphasize the superficial and the negative, and that produces a genre of nonfiction which conservatives are philosophically ill-suited to write. Conservatives don't decide to spend their lives writing that kind of stuff, and anticonservative people do.

Anticonservatism is the planted axiom of journalism. And that's Why Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate

[FairWitness]

“I believe that most of us reporters are liberal, but not because we consciously have chosen that particular color in the political spectrum.

Does the fact that you didn't choose it "consciously" make your bias better better Walter?

[FairWitness]

As a conservative I dont want to make the world a better place I just want to profit from the sufferings of others ...that and get laid

I admire a man who has his priorities in order.

[Joe Bonforte]

I thought we'd never have to put up with this windbag again. I so hated his patented "THAT's the WAY it IS, THURSDAY, June SIXTH."

I presume many of you are too young to remember that...

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Even before our U.S. 7th Cavalry's Opening Battles of the Vietnam War that we were then on our way to fight in the Summer of 1965...

...Anti-U.S. Internationalist WALTER CRONKITE was casting doubt on National TV about whether we would find any success against his Friends, invading North Vietnamese Communist Army Regulars.

...Anti-U.S. Internationalist WALTER CRONKITE went on to call us SkyTroopers "Failures" after our 1st Battle Victories. He later fooled America thru TV into leaving millions of poor S.E. Asian souls to their fate at the hands of Communist Bully Invaders. The Blood of so many just drips from his shirt sleeves.

...Anti-U.S. Internationalist WALTER CRONKITE publically called on our 11 Southern States to secede from our Union at a World Conferance in London in 2000, which would invalidate our U.S. Constitution.

...Anti-U.S. Internationalist WALTER CRONKITE is now Anti-U.S. Internationalist HILLARY Diane RODHAM's No. TV Defensive Linebacker in her current run for the Presidency in 2004, as she vows to destroy our Electoral College =

...Anti-U.S. Internationalist WALTER CRONKITE's new National Column at HILLARY's disposal.

The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.


Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer / Vet-U.S. 7th Cavalry's Opening Days of the Vietnam War-1965

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
(Photos)

[Robert Drobot]

Walter Cronkite is a lousy marxist propagandist, who gained a foothold in the news business on the backs of WWII GI's. He impresses me as a power boot-licking suck-up who has cast aside any pretense of American loyalty to stand with the enemies of America. A decaying dried-up prune displaying signs of rot long festering within.

[wardaddy]

lol

[BunnySlippers]

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[Senator Goldwater]

As a conservative I dont want to make the world a better place I just want to profit from the sufferings of others ...that and get laid

Not necessarily in that order.

[freekitty]

It is not the job of the press to push their agenda in news. Besides equality is slavery.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

.."No, WALTER, that's NOT the way it is"..

...we returning Vietnam Battle Veterans kept yelling nightly at our Living Room TV's...

...thanks to the Anti-U.S. Internationalist WALTER CRONKITE's continuous nightly TV Lies against US.

Nothing has changed since...
except he would now have a long ago Friend of our Terrorist Enemy HO CHI MINH ..HILLARY Diane RODHAM become President of the United States for the End of FREEDOM as we know it here in a new Century.

[Porterville]

the crimes, the tenement fires, the homeless and the hungry, the underclothed and undereducated.

I have never seen reporters at my house and I still think they are full of it and I disagree with them completly.

[Bluntpoint]

[MosesKnows]

Main Entry: jour·nal·ism
Pronunciation: 'j&r-n&l-"i-z&m
Function: noun
Date: 1833

The noun in need of definition is journalist; one whose occupation is journalism. However, there are far simplier definitions. A reporter is a person who reports the news, a journalist is a person who stars in the news.

[DCPatriot]

And, what the hell is wrong with *THAT*? ;^)