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06.24
Walter Cronkite: And that’s the way it should be…
Without a doubt, there will be memorials into perpetuity when this brilliant reporter and sage of the airwaves is finally overcome by his illnesses… and there should be.
However, what’s lacking is his legacy upon those talking heads giving the homage to the iconic CBS veteran. This was “the most trusted man in America” for decades, and today, who in the world would allow a single reporter or anchor to even babysit their kids?!
National news is pathetic regardless of where your TV remote finds you. There is no joint broadcasting, tiered openness or unleavened bias anymore. One network touts our president as “sort of God” and the other may as well accuse him of being Rosemary’s Baby.
Long gone are the days when you can turn on an evening news report and rest assured with all the facts to know that’s the way it is.
You know if the Edward R. Murrow disciples these days want to show any respect to Cronkite, consider this: the greatest tribute they can pay him is actually broadcast like him.
Whether you were old enough to see it live, or had a professor show you in school, most of us flacks have seen the regaled Cronkite announcement of JFK’s death. You couldn’t tell if he was a gun-totin’ member of the GOP or a tree-hugging member of the Democratic Party.
Why? It didn’t matter. He was there to report the news, not opine on political dissuasion.
Cronkite was the progeny of a soon-to-be extinct breed – trusted news anchors who valued integrity on facts rather getting hits on Facebook because of their misguided conjecture.
No, now you have to sift through the empty rhetoric, political bent and flat-out mudslinging to get any “facts” these days.
Godspeed, Walter. The media has become unceasingly sorrier since you left it. And once you have left us, so will we become.
And that’s just the way it is.
Anon
And today, he passed. The media will never be the same... and that's the way it is.
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