RIP Walter Cronkite

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http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/walter-cronkite-iconic-anchorman-dies/

 

[Passepartout]

RIP Uncle Walter, really will be missed!

 

[FArting]

RIP

 

[Gaddabout]

I'm going to be very unpopular after this, but I always felt Walter Cronkite broke the rules and wasn't a great example of what journalism should be. I love the fact he was irreverent to established power, but he was one man giving the nation the news, and it was often heavily filtered through his own politics. I understand why so many people think kindly of him in his passing, but I'll reserve my praise for Cronkite the journalist.

 

[SuperSpck]

I'm going to be very unpopular after this, but I always felt Walter Cronkite broke the rules and wasn't a great example of what journalism should be. I love the fact he was irreverent to established power, but he was one man giving the nation the news, and it was often heavily filtered through his own politics. I understand why so many people think kindly of him in his passing, but I'll reserve my praise for Cronkite the journalist.

Like a Woodward or Bernstein?

I think that we've lost the days of the journalist as watchdog.
Say what you will about the lenses through which he perceived the world, but he was looking out for the everyman.

I don't know of too many big names in journalism who'll do the same for us today... at least not without staring down the ratings value first.

 

[Gaddabout]

Like a Woodward or Bernstein?

Some would say Cronkite inspired Woodward and Bernstein.

 

[SuperSpck]

Some would say Cronkite inspired Woodward and Bernstein.

So is that a no?