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09/21/09

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Kates should be advised that gum-reduction surgery results in higher ratings with the 35-50 periodontist demographic.
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Elektra
09/21/09

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"More cherry"? It's a bit late for that, no?
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Magister
09/21/09

@Elektra: Not if they keep fucking that chicken.
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Ryan Tate
07/18/09

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Cronkite, 1996: "I regret that in our attempt to establish some standards, that we couldn't make them stick, we couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation."

http://www.newseum.org/news/news.aspx?item=nh_CRON090714_2
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spickle
07/18/09

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Cronkite and my grandfather were friends and fraternity brothers at the University of Texas. It's an often recited story in my family that when Cronkite told my grandfather that he was dropping out of school, my grandfather told him, "Walter, you'll never do anything without a college degree."
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spickle
07/18/09

@spickle: Forgot to mention that, even though he had never met either of them, he called my parents on their wedding day to send his congratulations and apologies for not being able to come. A stand-up fellow.
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Spirit Fingers
07/18/09

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Farewell, Mr. Cronkite.

I feel badly that this era of newscaster is gone. I know, I know, there's Brian Williams and every once in a while they roll out Tom Brokaw, but all in all, the landscape feels littered more with teleprompter jockeys and interchangeable "Anchor Man" carbon copies, than real, hard-core, newsmen.

Maybe there just aren't enough of these elder statesmen around to show the young bucks how it's really done. (And even if they tried, they'd probably be appalled by all the pampering the new guys get. And how the legion of nightly news drones would probably scoff at going out in the field to report news in real time.) Doesn't it always feel like these guys just appear at a news desk like the inflatable auto-pilot in Airplane!?

I'd almost say there's very little hope, but at least there's Pat Kiernan
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Spirit Fingers
07/18/09

I've been demoted again?!

I'm actually saying how great this newsman was and how great the era was. And I wish there were more like him. I'm respecting a quickly vanishing craft (that I'm also a part of) that has changed over time, but also being real about it in my assessment.

Somehow this is wrong to say? I'm not understanding how Gawker is working.

Maybe I should have just kept it at: "Walter Cronkite will be missed by those of us in the journalism community and those whose lives he touched daily by offering the news with dignity, reverence and class. Many of us aspire to do just that, and even in missing that mark, there's always the memory out there of someone who did it right."
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RobinTrypticon
07/18/09

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I was 7 years old when Kennedy was killed in Dallas and I distinctly remember sitting in front of the TV, sill in my school uniform, watching and hearing Cronkite tell us that Kennedy had died. I remember all the Apollo missions, especially the moon landing as well as Apollo 13 when everyone, and I mean the whole world, was praying for the safe return of the Astronauts and Walter was reporting. Vietnam was on the news every night during the late 60's and those reporters were right in the middle of the fighting, more so than they are today.......and Mr. Cronkite reported on that and everything that happened during that time including Kent State, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Anti- War demonstrations…. All of it. What a life! God Bless him.
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momof3wildkids
07/18/09

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What I loved about him was that he told the news -- real unvarnished news. His opinions didn't enter into his reporting. I loved his objectivity and I miss that in the current cable and mainstream news.

RIP
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persimmon
07/18/09

@momof3wildkids: Not true. He was very opinionated and was not afraid to let it be known. If anything, it is today's so-called journalists who have no spine when it comes to questioning what "official sources" tell them to dilligently write down. To wit:

We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds. . . .

"For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. . . . To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past."

Walter Kronkite, CBS News, February 27, 1968.
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BookishLookish
07/18/09

@persimmon: Thank you. He helped to end the war in Vietnam. He was an "activist newscaster," I guess. More power.
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BarbraOrpheus
07/18/09

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His later pieces he did for NPR were well written and always interesting. A loss.
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Mike Byhoff
07/18/09

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I went to ASU, and I'm still baffled to this day that of all the schools in the nation, Walter Cronkite associated himself with a school that is known more for its comically high acceptance rate and prolific binge drinking than journalistic excellence. Although the broadcast department is shockingly cutting edge.

I did shake his hand once though, and it was awesome. RIP.
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Prokofy_Neva
07/18/09

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What's wrong with Cronkite having been self-righteous? At least he had something to be righteous about. You don't. The man was a giant in broadcasting, his sonorous voice kept the news serious and distinguished it from the commercials and the entertainment. 10 million twitterers cannot replace him.
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Lucia Toledo
07/18/09

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His TV show, "The Twentieth Century," was as important to me as any history course I ever took. Man, that's great journalism: impeccable intellectually and morally, and damned entertaining...
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marin79
07/18/09

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I read about Cronkite’s passing earlier this evening and immediately called my mother. Generally my mother is happy to hear from me (one of my better skills is screening her calls), but tonight she quickly got off the phone to pass along the news to my dad and then her own father.

I was born just a few years before Cronkite went off the air & never lived any of these iconic moments that are his legacy. My mom hung up to talk to people who lived those moments with her… which was the moment that I realized that even though I genuinely feel sad about Cronkite’s death, I’ll never actually understand what this loss means to a lot of people in this Country. I just wasn’t there.

This got me to thinking – if we’re talking more current journalists, who is going to be the person we’re mourning years from now? I grew up with Tom Brokow every night on the evening news. I remember watching the Challenger with him, and much later, the 2000 election – two momentous (and fucking terrible) moments. But is he Cronkite’s equivalent? Or is that lack of our own journalistic icon why today is so sad to people like me who can’t even fully understand the significance… as much as we’d like to.
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sarrible
07/18/09

@marin79: I really mourned Peter Jennings when he passed away a few years ago. I've never been an evening news watcher, but he was the one I was watching on Sept. 11. He had a great voice and I miss him.
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marin79
07/18/09

@sarrible: Same here - that was as really sad day.

Also, should add that when any of the newscasters of my childhood do pass on, I will be incredibly sad. Was only a reflection about who will be my Cronkite will be.
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sfBirdie
07/18/09

@sarrible: 9/11 was the reason Peter Jennings' death resonated with me... aside from that, I cannot recall anyone else.
Also, and by no way is this in offense to Mr. Jennings' legacy, it resonated more because of the events - not necessarily the newscaster. This is part of the reason why it's sad that we don't have anyone like Walter Cronkite today.
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yankeefan1959
07/18/09

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I just wish CBS let Cronkite retire when he wanted to. I wanted to see him report on the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Challenger disaster, and 9/11. These are pivotal recent events that shaped my life and his insight was always on point. Anybody who was born after 1975 really missed an amazing era.
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YaffaSketch
07/18/09

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The best thing I heard all night was when Morley Safer said Cronkite was a great drinking buddy. That's all I needed to know.
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DoctorNine
07/17/09

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All the adults are dead, or in a coma. Even Uncle Walter has sunk beneath the waves. Who's gonna watch out for the kids now? God knows they have absolutely no sense of decorum. And don't try foisting off some juvenile delinquent from New Jersey on me, who can't even be bothered to buy a fitted suit. I've had enough of hipsters and their inside jokes. Fill his shoes? These pissants could use them for a boat...
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