Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite is dead at age 92.  It's hard to imagine that this real news man retired in 1981 at 64 years of age.  He covered D-Day from a B-17 as a United Press correspondent, went on bombing missions over Germany and opened United Press International’s first postwar bureau in Moscow, the New York Times reports.  What a difference a day makes. 

Cronkite started his career in 1935; he was at the Battle of the Bulge;  he covered the Nuremberg Trials; covered tie 1952 presidential elections; and just about every major event in his portion of history.   Mostly he was known to be impartial, a lesson 99% of current so called journalists need to learn.

Mostly he was known as a good, honest, happy man who was willing to help others in his chosen profession.  Most of you know about him, but if you don't do a Google search and you will find page after page of his accomplishments, words of praise from those who knew him.

He was apparently true to himself, his wife, his family, and the true meaning of "reporting" the news.


See The Watcher of Weasels article Liberal Cause and Effect – From the Classroom to the Newsroom

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[Devoirs]

WALTER CRONKITE'S JOURNALISM WAS EXCELLENT.

CRONKITE LEAVES BEHIND A GOOD LEGACY.

CRONKITE POSITIVELY INFLUENCED OTHERS.
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SCANDALS! SCANDALS! SCANDALS!

DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!

GEORGE W. BUSH IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CRIMINAL STALKER AND SERIAL KILLER!

“In her suit, Margie Schoedinger states that George W. Bush committed sexual crimes against her, organized harassment and moral pressure on her, her family members and close relatives and friends. As Schoedinger said, she was strongly recommended to keep her mouth shut. . . . Furthermore, she alleges that George Bush ordered to show pressure on her to the point, when she commits suicide” (go to Google, type “blog of drizzten Margie Schoedinger,” and hit “Enter”).

“George [Bush is personally complicit] in the death (murder to be precise) of my friend Margie Schoedinger in September of 2003. Determining the exact whereabouts and contacts of . . . George Bush on September 21 thru 22, 2003, should be entirely lacking in difficulty” (Leola McConnell; go to Google, type “Leola McConnell blogspot Margie Schoedinger,” and hit “Enter”).

McConnell is correct: Bush applying pressure (continuously criminally stalking Margie Schoedinger) purposefully to force Schoedinger to commit suicide does in fact constitute murder where it culminated in her death.

Bush’s method of murdering Schoedinger cannot exist in a vacuum: he must have murdered other people in the same way.

During Bush’s presidency, of course Bush would have desired to kill people whom he hated or get them out of his way. Insofar as Bush was clearly capable of murdering Schoedinger—even in “broad daylight”—and is clearly capable of getting away with it, in consideration of common sense and the laws of human nature, Bush of course murdered numerous people in the disgusting way he murdered Schoedinger. One can examine public information; in various situations where people who sought to oppose or disadvantage Bush ever so frighteningly ended up “committing suicide”—specifically—Bush murdered them just like he murdered Schoedinger. For example, Bush murdered James Howard Hatfield by continuously criminally stalking Hatfield to the point that Hatfield could not get away from it—purposefully to force Hatfield to commit suicide—and Hatfield committed suicide in desperation to escape. However, the vast majority of such scandalous cases will never come out (the grisly details are typically hard to substantiate). A prosecutor really can lawfully charge a former president with murdering one or more people in the disgusting way Bush murdered Schoedinger. The American people unfortunately live in a world where evil presidents can murder any number of people—figuratively—with a wave of a magic wand and get away with it.

(There are thousands of copies of the information above on the Internet. Please feel free to go to any major search engine, type “GEORGE W. BUSH IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CRIMINAL STALKER AND SERIAL KILLER” or “George W. Bush continuously criminally stalked Margie Schoedinger to the point that she could not get away from it, and she committed suicide in desperation to escape: he murdered her” or “George W. Bush applying pressure (continuously criminally stalking Margie Schoedinger) purposefully to force Schoedinger to commit suicide does in fact constitute murder where it culminated in her death” or “George W. Bush murdered James Howard Hatfield by continuously criminally stalking Hatfield to the point that Hatfield could not get away from it—purposefully to force Hatfield to commit suicide—and Hatfield committed suicide in desperation to escape,” hit “Enter,” and readily find hundreds of copies.)

(Please feel free to go to Google, type “GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY blog of Andrew Wang,” and hit “Enter.”)
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Andrew Wang
(a.k.a. “THE DISSEMINATING MACHINE”)
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

[Bogdan of Australia]

Sorry Debbie. He was frequently praised in the Communo-fascist "mass media" when I still had to live in the that region of the world that used to be called a "Worker's Paradise". He didn't earn those praises for nothing. And an individual who almost single-handedly made the US to loose an unloosable war cannot be regarded as an "honest to himself" journalist. Millions of innocent people in Indo-China have been murdered because of a treasonous conduct of the people like Cronkite. In fact, he was a walking blob of a revolting, quasi-journalistic scum. In the same league with another "great" Walter - Duranty. Thanks (at least partially) to such degenerates I have the best years of my life wasted while living under the whip of communo-fascism.

[Always On Watch]

Cronkite did have a liberal agenda. Still, he was a pioneer and did consider reporting the news a duty.

I'll also give him this much: when he stated his views on the Vietnam War, he did state that what he was about to say was his own opinion. Today's anchors don't have that much honesty.

Of all the news anchors I've ever heard, Cronkite is the one who had the most distinctive and recognizable voice.

[Skunkfeathers]

I wasn't sharp enough to pick up on any liberal slant that Cronkite used in his news delivery; but it sure became evident with those who followed him after his retirement. Today, you have Olbermann and Matthews, who wave flags of bias over their friggin' heads when they sit there and vomit their bias.

Whatever credibility Walter Cronkite had, it began a slow death in the wake of his retirement, and today's news media is bereft of any credibility today.

[Debbie]

There's no question he was a liberal, it was out in the open after he retired. But I think he tried to keep it under wraps and just report the news. If I'm wrong, there is still a big difference in his reporting and the reporting of the MSM today.

Of course there were not many to compare Cronkite with back in the day, we only had two, then three networks on TV and the print media before that was certainly different than today.

I had forgotten he was a HAM, amateur radio operator.

[David (DW)]

I have been a Conservative from birth. The image of impartiality is a fraud. When I was in my early teens, I could immediately detect the liberal slant Cronkite gave the news. I was not politically naive at that age. It was a trust he failed to earn from the 1960's onward.

[Grouchulitis Maximus]

He was also a ham radio operator.

[Ron Russell]

I lived through the Cronkite years and I saw nothing impartial about the man during the 1960's and 1970's, during that time however most were slow to recognize the bias that existed in the MSM--everyone assumed they were getting the facts for they had no other sources. A few, a very few saw this in the press, but they had little if any voice in expressing their dissent, not like today. Cronkite, was a great newsman, but he did have and express his bias in sutle ways. I'm sure that he was a good and dedicated man true to his values.