Re: Cronkite July 17 2009

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Can’t say that I feel sorry about Cronkite, who was just one of a long line of dishonest journalists passing off his opinions as fact in order to help support his liberal worldview. Instead I feel sorry for the millions of Cambodians who were killed thanks in part to Cronkite’s propaganda.

 

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  1. Harl Delos Jul 18

    We’re just about at the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon.

    I remember the article in Esquire asking people to suggest what Neil Armstrong should say when he becomes the first man to step foot on another body than Earth. I remember GM giving their workers – including a brother of mine, and a brother in law – a paid holiday on Monday, calling it “MoonDay”. I remember television stations broadcasting, for the first time since the stations started up, all night long. They were showing us live pictures from the moon, and they really didn’t do anything, but it was so unbelievable where they weren’t doing it.

    I know some people think of Walter broadcasting in his shirt sleeves when Jack Kennedy was killed, but I was numb then, and afraid that the USSR was about to launch missles at us, in our unpreparedness.

    You obviously are POed at his political coverage, but it’s not clear to me whether it was his support of the military action early on, or his lack of support for military action later on that has you POed.

    I tend to blame Lyndon, who swore he wasn’t about to send American boys thousands of miles to fight a war that Asian boys ought to be fighting, and then did it anyway. And I tend to blame Nixon, who had a secret plan to end the war, but it still seems to be a secret, because he killed nearly as many American troops bringing Vietnam to a close as Lyndon had killed in starting the thing up. Neither one of them was worth a hoot.

    But Walter Cronkite was our biggest cheerleader in space. NASA in the 1960s was one of America’s proudest accomplishments. And we haven’t done anything since that compares. Cronkite remains a reminder that we once did great things – and we need a reminder, because there are a lot of kids these days, kids that have never seen a dial telephone, much less a crank phone, kids that have never seen an 8-track, much less a Victrola, that really need to be shown what can happen when we work together.

    I suppose that’s asking a lot, that we find a reason to all pull together. Instead, we find our nation under attack, and the government tells us to go shopping. But I’d still like to see us do it, for the kids if for no other reason.

  2. John Lewandowski Jul 18

    I’m POed by anybody who is held up as an objective journalist but who puts his personal opinion into the “news”.