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07-17-2009, 08:00 PM
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Walter Cronkite has died
A good man, now gone.
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07-17-2009, 08:33 PM
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"The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed." - Walter Cronkite 1916-2009 R.I.P.
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07-20-2009, 04:30 PM
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I remember watching his commentary on the moon landings. He actually took the time to learn something about the subject. You could tell he was well acquainted with the material.
When his successor, Dan Rather, covered the first shuttle launch in '81, you could tell he didn't know squat. He didn't know the difference between the main engines and the SRBs. He was...well the invective that almost followed would detract from admiring Cronkite. Cronkite was a great man. He helped educate me--all of us.
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07-21-2009, 03:11 PM
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That's the difference between a JOURNALIST and a REPORTER... A journalist is a professional who conveys news and information in an unbiased, trustworthy, and understandable way. A reporter is a talking head in a suit that you can't trust, and TV's full of them nowdays... Sadly, there aren't many journalists any more, and now we have one less. RIP Walter! OL JR 
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#6
07-21-2009, 06:48 PM
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One of the good journalists is actually a fake journalist, John Stewart!
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07-24-2009, 05:09 AM
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Of course; in addition to reading the script, he was right there on the sound stage where they were recording them. 
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