Walter Cronkite Rip

[uncool2pillow]

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[bjorn_skurj]

Aww. Truly one of the greats.

[John Smith]

He's been retired for so long that a lot of younger people are not at all familiar with him. He was definately a powerhouse when in his prime.

[cryptique]

There's never been anyone like him. He set a standard that will never be matched. RIP.

[Sir Stewart]

There's never been anyone like him. He set a standard that will never be matched. RIP.

 

That says it.

His contributions to NPR in his final years were a treat, too.

[Calexico]

A true giant of his profession. A proper journalistic totem. The likes of Cronkite and Murrow will never be seen again and that is completely disheartening.

[Mr. Heartbreak]

He was the man for a long, long time. Well, at least he lived to a ripe old age!

 

RIP, Mr. Cronkite ... "And that's the way it was."

[Central Scrutinizer]

A true giant of his profession. A proper journalistic totem. The likes of Cronkite and Murrow will never be seen again and that is completely disheartening.

I think "journalism" will be buried with him. Accurate and original reporting has ceased to exist, the gray areas of what's acceptable in reporting -- verifying sources, getting content on the record versus reporting gossip or regurgitating other publication's gossip -- have been given up in the noise that media and the Web bleats today. That he would die with his reputation foreign to so many makes his passing even sadder.

[Sir Stewart]

I think "journalism" will be buried with him. Accurate and original reporting has ceased to exist

 

That's a bit of hyperbole. There's some really good reporting still going on. NPR comes to mind.

[HungryHippo]

i heard someone say that Perez Hilton is this generation's Walter Cronkite. thoughts?

[uncool2pillow]

i heard someone say that Perez Hilton is this generation's Walter Cronkite. thoughts?

[Central Scrutinizer]

That's a bit of hyperbole. There's some really good reporting still going on. NPR comes to mind.

NPR is dismissed as liberal rubbish. Another conservative regime could squeeze the last life out of it. It's a process of erosion -- institutions like NPR, and PBS are fighting to hold a line when everything else is working against it. The world phenomenon is millions of people speaking their minds in 140 characters -- AND NOBODY LISTENING.

[Sir Stewart]

NPR is dismissed as liberal rubbish. Another conservative regime could squeeze the last life out of it. It's a process of erosion -- institutions like NPR, and PBS are fighting to hold a line when everything else is working against it. The world phenomenon is millions of people speaking their minds in 140 characters -- AND NOBODY LISTENING.

 

And what does anything you said have to do with my statement?

[MattZ]

I used to hate that my mom would make us watch the MacNeil-Lehrer report when I was a kid. Now I watch the Newshour with Jim Lehrer every night. I suppose that is how life works.

[Central Scrutinizer]

And what does anything you said have to do with my statement?

NPR is an exception and a precarious one at that. The erosion of journalistic integrity is NOT hyperbole.

[Sir Stewart]

The erosion of journalistic integrity is NOT hyperbole.

 

I didn't say it was. I said "accurate and original reporting has ceased to exist" was a bit of hyperbole. And used NPR as a example. That's all.

[Central Scrutinizer]

One would argue that even NPR's coverage has a "lean," based on its audience. But, granted, they give all sides opportunity to whack at them, and will broadcast their opposition to coverage.

 

So, hyperbole, short of a line in the sand, is the best I can offer.