In this feature, each week I'll share a weekly guest with you all,
and you tell me in only three words what comes to mind.
In Three Words...
Walter Cronkite
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
Integrity. Calm. Honor.
ReplyDeleteEvery now and then, when I am really pissed off with the broadcast new, I will search for a YouTube video of Cronkite. My God! How different the tone of the news back then. It was... facts. Reporting. No "feelie" things, no opinions. Just... news. Spoken by and adult for adults. And if you were a child, you actually, like, LEARNED something by watching. Oh, and no Big Pharma commercials.
DeleteI couldn't agree more with your comment. A sad shell of itself to what it used to be. It's almost as if no one take pride in their work anymore and has the balls to report just news. I mean who even comes close to Cronkite these days? Once morals, class, decorum, and work integrity leave, I suspect they won't return. I was very young then, but he left an impression on me and have memories of hearing this voice. Now I barely once the news.
DeleteA Real Journalist.
ReplyDeleteNo Fake News
ReplyDeleteAmerican News Anchor
ReplyDeleteEmotional moon landing
ReplyDeleteMy comment above, watched the Eagle landing on July 20. 1969 in the great room on the Presidio in Monterey, California while in the Navy. So great to see grown men showing their emotional side when that was rarely seen in public. Walter and the rest of the commentators were wiping tears, so was I.
DeleteSolid, honest reporter.
ReplyDeleteLast trusted journalist
ReplyDeleteA real journalist
ReplyDeleteCould be trusted.
ReplyDelete(That’s the) Way It Is.
ReplyDeleteNow it's (That's the) Way we tell you it is and you'd better believe it or else!
DeleteYour right Anon. All puppets of the networks they serve.
DeleteRespected, trustworthy journalist.
ReplyDeleteTruth be told
ReplyDelete-Rj
Legendary broadcast journalist. Neve been another since.
ReplyDeleteHonest, Unbiased, Trustworthy.
ReplyDeleteTime-honored ethics.
ReplyDeleteHe was one of the last greats to report the news.
Respected, fairness, integrity.
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