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walter cronkite dies
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:27 pm
by OJVIKE
Re: walter cronkite dies
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:03 pm
by glg
I'm too young to know him from anything other then clips, but those clips are incredible. Probably the greatest newsman ever.
Re: walter cronkite dies
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:03 pm
by DeeEss57
glg wrote:I'm too young to know him from anything other then clips, but those clips are incredible. Probably the greatest newsman ever.
Well, I think Edward R Murrow is probably one to consider for that title, as well. But Cronkite was a news institution and remained so even after his retirement from the nightly news.
His emotion at announcing that President Kennedy had died was something one never thought they would see from Uncle Walter. But you can't blame him for showing it.
Dawn
Re: walter cronkite dies
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:53 pm
by Hunter Morrow
I think its funny the way the media was treating him. Saying how honest and straightforward and compassionate and genuinely caring about his craft and how seriously he took his civic duties of being a broadcaster...
And we'll never see a broadcaster quite like him ever again!
Well, can't we just give it a shot? Can't we ditch the Becks and the Hannities and the Olbermanns and the Dobbses and all the other #### and get journalism to be journalism again?
"We'll never see a man quite like him ever again."
Okay, enjoy your dwindling market shares and you middle teens Trustworthiness ratings, you schmucks!
R.I.P. Wally!
Re: walter cronkite dies
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:34 pm
by DeeEss57
Hunter Morrow wrote:...Well, can't we just give it a shot? Can't we ditch the Becks and the Hannities and the Olbermanns and the Dobbses and all the other #### and get journalism to be journalism again?...
Nope. The business has changed. And the internet has changed it. With the advent of 24-hour news, you wind up with people like Beck and Hannity and Olbermann on the air. Why? Because you can't fill 24 hours with real news.
Also, these days, the citizenry is more cynical. Cronkite became a news star in a simpler time, when black was black and white was white and there was no grey. Vietnam, Watergate and Nixon put the final fork into this country's innocence begun on November 22, 1963. Today is the day of tabloid journalism and it won't go back to being journalism as it used to be unless the citizenry force it to.
That being said, I think there are journalists out there who practice Cronkite's brand of journalism. However, the only ones who get headlines these days are the kind you'd like to be rid of. Maybe people should stop watching the 24 hour news sources and stick with the network news, which hasn't really changed all that much in 30 years.
Dawn