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“And that’s the way it is.”

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The man who was trusted in more than just America.

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Goodnight sweet medium.

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Stephen Mann said on July 18th, 2009 at 3:33 am

One of my earliest memories of watching television is of Walter interviewing Harriet Tubman as part of the You Are There educational program…that, and a stop-action Captain America cartoon.

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MarvinAndroid said on July 18th, 2009 at 3:59 am

As a Journalism student I can honestly say that journalism isn’t dead…

…it’s just pining for the fjords…

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Tenken347 said on July 18th, 2009 at 8:21 am

Actually, I’d say it’s pretty charitable to claim that journalism only died this year. I’d say it was gone years ago.

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To clarify:Walter Cronkite died July 17. That is what is post is about.

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Freep, classy as always, is already condemning him as the central figure is their Vietnam Dolchstosslegende.

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End Of The World said on July 19th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

I can’t believe this man would go to Vietnam and actually come to a conclusion based on the facts he observed. It’s a shame he died before he could have taken some lessons in real objective journalism from David Gregory or Tim Russert.

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Drmedula said on July 19th, 2009 at 2:05 pm

Actually, better that Freep attack Cronkite… at least they’re honest about the fact they hate him and everything he stands for. Tributes from the FOX crowd are an insult; Cronkite despised them and held them in contempt, and they know it- pretending otherwise is just another lie…

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Oh bullshit, the FOX guys admired Cronkite as much as everyone else; he hated them because he was as liberal as the network he reported for eventually became (he wasn’t always that way, of course, but definitely in his later years).

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Drmedula said on July 19th, 2009 at 7:21 pm

You have not contradicted me- they pay tribute in an attempt to make themselves look bigger, but they still know he held them in contempt- and it wasn’t just the politics. (In fact, forget politics- the real problem with FOX is, and always has been, simply this: LACK OF ACTUAL NEWS. When the closest thing you have to someone with actual journalistic credibility is Geraldo,you’ve got a problem.)( I know some people are pointing to Sheppard Smith- but he hasn’t broken from the pack yet- and smart money says he won’t until he reads the handwriting on the wall and makes a break for it… because it really only a question of whether he jumps or is pushed.)

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