[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Olbermann makes Cooper look like Cronkite.

Not to burst your bubble or anything - but have you read anything by Cronkite since he retired?

[Milhous]

CiC, perhaps the spirit will move you to entertain carmody's rhetorical question:

And what’s it to Politico if CNN goes down the drain? Why would non-partisan journalists care which cable networks are winning the ratings games?

(A nebulous notion conflating baseball with football in the name of sports dances in milhous' mind.)

[abb]

I do have this one in my “to read” pile.

http://books.google.com/books?id=xN41yrOmXtIC
A reporter’s life
By Walter Cronkite

Currently, about halfway through this one.

http://books.google.com/books?id=uq3Emo7DDcMC&dq=deadline:+a+memoir
Deadline: a memoir
By James Reston

[Yardstick]

Oh yeah, Cronkite has outed himself as a big time lib. I’m referring more to his straight-shooter reputation.