Another icon of my childhood is gone…
Published Fri, Jul 17 2009 5:07 PM
The “most trusted man in America” is gone. According to the Seattle Post Intelligencer…
NEW YORK -- Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died Friday. He was 92.
Walter Cronkite, the man who closed his newscasts with “… and that’s the way it is…” is gone. When I was growing up, this man was the evening news. While not truly an objective journalist (he was a liberal to the core), he was one of the best. I even remember watching documentaries hosted by Walter Cronkite in school.
He was an anchorman before there were anchormen. Today’s anchormen and anchorwomen are nothing more than just talking heads really. Walter Cronkite was a newsman. He at least tried to appear objective, unlike newsmen of today that are nothing more or less than partisan hacks.
He will be missed, much more than any other celebrity I would think.
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Glenn M Cassel AMH1(AW) USN RET responded with:
 | I most vividly the evening news on the one channel we got in Malta, Montana. It was the CBS outlet from Billings. Then there was Apollo 11, which I watched in the basement during my grandparent's 40th wedding anniverary reception. I was almost 15 at that time. But no one has made mention of a program called "The Twentieth Century" That was the one that I will most remember Walter Cronkite for. |
David responded with:
 | He lost much--though not all--of my respect with his editorializing (masked as reporting) of the Viet Nam War. During that time, he showed his colors. *sigh* |
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