Is it any wonder I wish to disassociate from most of the rest of my species, when the passing of Walter Cronkite garners a mere fraction of the media -- and popular -- attention than that of Michael Jackson's demise? Priorities, people!
(Menopausal Stoners has some share-worthy thoughts relevant to all this.)
It's kind of a wonder that WC hung around the planet as long as he did, considering the state of "news" journalism these past couple of decades. Maybe those of us old enough to remember Cronkite, Huntley, Brinkley, and the other pre-CNN newscasters shirked our responsibility to re-direct the misdirected corporate news entities when they wandered so far off the path. Then again, it was the '80s, and lots of people lost their way back then. It was morning in America, and we hadn't had our coffee yet.
Here's to you, Uncle Walter...
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Agreed!
ReplyDeleteApropos to this post is a video about a CNN report back in the '90's over at Planet of the Chimps. The absolute opposite of what WC was about. If you've not seen it, take a gander.
http://chimpplanet.blogspot.com/2009/07/cnns-hoax-on-america.html
WC was a class act, a regular guy who never talked down to anyone. Where we lived when I was a child had two TV stations available, our local CBC affiliate, and one across the lake in Watertown, NY. It's national programming was mostly CBS, so I grew up watching Walter Cronkite.
ReplyDeleteI remember my mom waking me up to see Armstrong step onto the moon, and WC was the announcer, as he was for so many historical things during his tenure.
Depressing, isn't it. Though the intelligent stations (BBC TV and Radio, Channel 4) covered his death in surprising depth for a population which hasn't heard of the great man.
ReplyDeleteThis is the way the world ends
ReplyDeleteThis is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Its true we shall not see his like again in journalism
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