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93 good years! RIP Walter

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Peace out old timer.

Thanks for the memories.

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Enough Said.

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Mutt

you gotta be pretty old to actually remember him doing the news - unfortunately I do!

he retired way too early. i think that jackass Dan Rather replaced him and was a disaster.

RIP Walter. A long life well lived. We should all be as fortunate.

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mikeyddddd

He's the only anchor I remember from when I as a kid.

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Elli

Oh very sad

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rip walter

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Rip d0gg

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Grew up watching him.... I remember the landing on the moon...RIP Walter...

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Very sad news. Rest in peace Walter.

DateDoc

Very sad. RIP!

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SilentKnight

What I remember most is his coverage of the JFK assassination - the way he removed his glasses and choked up with emotion.

RIP Walter. You done a helluva job through some tough times.

Miguel T

93 Years... Thats alot of time to live...

RIP!

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MikeSmoke

And most people here don't even have any idea how important to America Walter Cronkite really was. That's not a slam - there's no way that you could understand it if you didn't live in those times.

From a former CBS-er.........RIP, Mr. Cronkite. You were an inspiration.

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burntfilm

One of the all time greats, a true Hall of Famer. He'll be missed

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Along with Edward G. Murrow, Walter Cronkite helped define what an impartial news reporter was supposed to be about.



In his latter years, Cronkite lamented how ideologue reporters had made themselves more important than the news which they were reporting on...

I do hope that his example will be emulated by future generations of news reporters, since Walter Cronkite truly was a news legend.

RIP Walter Cronkite...

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that was sad. RIP

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selena

Me too. I remember Dan Rather from later, of course, but I don't remember our TV ever being tuned to anything other than CBS news at that era. Matter of fact, beyond the news, when I think about it, we pretty much tuned to CBS period. Now and then maybe NBC, but I remember being pretty elitist when it came to watching ABC, or rather not watching it.

Agreed. There is a great article on CNN about him this morning. Copying it for those who weren't around during those times.

When David Halberstam wrote his 1979 book, "The Powers That Be," about four powerful news organizations and how they shaped the national dialogue, he focused on three print publications -- Time magazine, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times -- and one television network: CBS.

The reason for CBS was obvious. The "Tiffany Network" had the most renowned television news division in the country, and its heart, soul and face was the man whose carefully modulated tones defined its propriety. That man was called -- without irony -- "the most trusted man in America."

Walter Cronkite.

In the splintered, frantic, snark-happy, 500-channel multimedia universe in which we now live, it's hard to imagine one man with the kind of almost universal regard Cronkite, who died Friday at the age of 92, had in the 1960s and '70s. In retrospect, Cronkite seemed a little taken aback by his status; in his 1996 memoir, "A Reporter's Life," he is consistently self-deprecating and rarely fails to mention a writer, producer or CBS staffer who helped him nail a story.

But his power was undeniable. In those years, there were only three networks splitting the national television audience, and CBS was No. 1 for news, as it was in prime time.

Cronkite did not take his role lightly. He delivered the news with care and consideration and humanity, never far removed from his declarative sentence, wire service and radio announcing roots.

Which made him all the more credible when he gave an opinion -- a rarity -- or let his guard down

When Cronkite saw correspondent Dan Rather being manhandled during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, he said, "I think we've got a bunch of thugs here, Dan." (He later regretted not being tougher on Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley during an ensuing interview.) When he saw Apollo 11's lander touch down on the moon, he could barely contain his joy.

Most famously, when he went to Vietnam in early 1968 and said it was time for the U.S. to start getting out, he "change[d] the balance," wrote Halberstam.

"This affected [President] Lyndon Johnson in two ways," Halberstam continued. "First, he realized that he had lost the center, that Walter both was the center and reached the center. ... Second, because he liked and admired Cronkite so much and thought him so fair a reporter, he found himself believing that if Walter Cronkite was reporting these things, he must know something."

Less than two months later, Johnson announced he would not seek re-election.

Cronkite's status made him an occasional target, of course. To Richard Nixon -- whom Cronkite found a curious man, once scanning a ceiling as if looking for surveillance bugs -- he and CBS were the enemy. To competitors, Cronkite was a challenge, whether answered by David Brinkley's acerbic wit at NBC or Barbara Walters' glamour at ABC.

But, even as the "avuncular" -- he was always described as "avuncular" -- "Uncle Walter," Cronkite never lost his authority. In a country, then as now, with diverging, contradictory interests, he was a man of wide support.

In "The '80s: A Look Back," a satire that came out the same year as "The Powers That Be," the authors -- a countercultural crew that included the National Lampoon's Henry Beard and Tony Hendra -- used Cronkite as a symbol of all that was right about America. In the aftermath of a crooked Congress' abandonment of government, the lone remaining TV network has an election for "Anchorman of the United States" -- and Cronkite wins in a landslide.

In real life, of course, we now have dozens of networks and countless news sources. Cronkite stepped down as anchorman in 1981; he would say later he regretted the decision. He never ceased to promote the need for solid, well-sourced news, nor was he quiet when he felt that trust was being eroded.

But regardless of his qualms, he never ceased loving journalism, a career he treated like a gift. He was along for the ride of history, and he enjoyed every minute

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/17/cro...ion/index.html

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Cronkite was hardly impartial His blatant lies about the NVA "victory" during the Tet Offensive cost the US support for the war and led to the eventual defeat and the genocide that followed. His agenda against the war caused him to spin a huge victory into a crushing defeat which became a self fulfilling prophesy after that.

He may have done some good work but he was hardly impartial.

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RIP Walter

TurboAngel

I didn't see this thread. I made one sorry. When I was growing up I thought he looked just like my Grandfather so I would watch the news every night.

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I remember watching Walter Cronkite every night as a kid, it took me years to get used to hearing "this is the CBS evening news with Dan Rather" seemed so weird after hearing Walter Cronkite so many times.

Sad that he's gone.

Tom_PM

I remember huddling around the tv with my brothers and parents for the moon landing.
And yeah, it's got to be hard for people today to imagine that there were only basically 3 channels that everyone in the country watched the previous evening. Could just say you watched Walter last night and he said such and such.

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He had a good run.

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mikeyddddd

I just saw that CBS News is airing a special about him - That's The Way It Was: Remembering Walter Cronkite, Sunday, July 19 at 7 p.m. ET

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Thomas1007

sad news. RIP walter.

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Doctor Feelgood

damn, i had picked christopher lloyd to go next in the pool

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LeRoy

What a good life. His takes on his things on the war Vietnam were good

R.I.P

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RIP Walter Cronkite

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R.i.p !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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