NYT: Walter Cronkite dead at 92

RIP, Mr. Cronkite.

 

RIP THE newsman of my childhood

And that's the way it is ...

 

RIP to one of, if not, the best.

 

Seems like a good time to re-read his autobiography.

 

RIP to America's security blanket, who also probably did in LBJ (if only we knew what worseness that would lead to) by turning against the Vietnam war. Brokaw was probably the last of that breed that we will ever have, with the fragmentation of media and cynicism and snark being the freak flags we wave.

 

My favorite Cronkite story is that he named his boat "Assignment," and when he was on vacation they could open with, "Good evening, I'm so-and-so. Walter Cronkite is on assignment."

 

CNN's John King just cut Mike Wallace short to go to Katie Couric.

I'm pretty sure I heard Wallace chuckle when King asked Couric about the responsibility she had of "sitting in his chair."

 

Mr W,

That what I just said to the only friend of the friend of the friendless. I'm sure they turned the sound down to zero. MW really doesn't sound like he's on his meds.

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I think Wallace has hung up, while Couric is still on air.

 

RIP to a legend.

 

RIP Mr. Cronkite.
One can only imagine if he had been 10 years younger if he would have made the jump to CNN or would he have stayed on at CBS.
His death deserves more coverage than Michael Jackson's, but will likely receive only 1/10 as much if we're lucky. I wonder how he felt about the wall-to-wall coverage of MJ's death.

 

Sirs, Madames,

Predeceased by the relevance of the Big Three evening-news broadcasts.

I was a David Brinkley man myself.

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