Walter Cronkite Has Died at the Age of 92

[Holmes85]

Walter Cronkite has died at the age of 92 according to CBS News


Walter Cronkite Dies
"Most Trusted Man in America" Passes Away in New York at 92

By Greg Kandra

(CBS) Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," has died. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his family by his side at his home in New York after a long illness. He was 92.
Here's the link http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/17/eveningnews/main5170556.shtml?tag=cbsContent;cbsCarousel

[Andreas]

Hmm I kind of thought he died years ago...

RIP broadcasting legend..

[nullterm]

RIP. I didn't grow up watching him, but still have a feeling that we've just lost a great one today. The news these days needs more guys/gals like him.

[California Joe]

I read a quote once where he said that he wanted to die on a 70 foot boat with a 16 year old whore.

His wife replied, You'd be more likely to die on a 16 foot boat with a 70 year old whore.

[Kingswat]

Rip .

[Eagle The Lightning]

Rest in peace

[Eztyga]

I read a quote once where he said that he wanted to die on a 70 foot boat with a 16 year old whore.

His wife replied, You'd be more likely to die on a 16 foot boat with a 70 year old whore.

roflrofl

Thats how I would like to go, just insert Asian in front of whore. :)

RIP Walter, hope that whore is waiting for you on that boat trip across the River Styx.

[RECON DOC]

I wonder what killed him.

[Eztyga]

I wonder what killed him.

Chasing down a 16 year old whore...p-)

[socom6]

Yep always heard of him. He was a legend in broadcasting, he will be missed.

[RECON DOC]

Chasing down a 16 year old whore...p-)

On his 70' boat.p-)

[Art Vandelay]

RIP to Walter. I was 11 years old when they forced him to retire and when they replaced him I clearly remember my father saying "I'm not watching this Dan Rather faggot."

[Holmes85]

I wonder what killed him.

Cerebrovascular disease is what I'm hearing.

[Laworkerbee]

RIP to Walter. I was 11 years old when they forced him to retire and when they replaced him I clearly remember my father saying "I'm not watching this Dan Rather faggot."

Your dad rules

RIP Walter

[el borracho]

The end of an era, really. The ubiquitous entertainment driven news of today can't hold a candle to what this guy gave the world of journalism.

[Ought Six]

RD:
"I wonder what killed him."Being 92 years old.

[Soldat_Américain]

Walter Cronkite, former war reporter, dies


Frazier Moore - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Jul 17, 2009 21:30:17 EDT
NEW YORK — Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died Friday. He was 92. Cronkite's longtime chief of staff, Marlene Adler, said Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. at his Manhattan home surrounded by family. She said the cause of death was cerebral vascular disease.
Cronkite was the face of the "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to racial and anti-war riots, Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis.
It was Cronkite who read the bulletins coming from Dallas when Kennedy was shot Nov. 22, 1963, interrupting a live CBS-TV broadcast of the soap opera "As the World Turns."
A former wire service reporter and war correspondent, he valued accuracy, objectivity and understated compassion. He expressed liberal views in more recent writings but said he had always aimed to be fair and professional in his judgments on the air.
Cronkite was the broadcaster to whom the title "anchorman" was first applied, and he came so identified in that role that eventually his own name became the term for the job in other languages. (Swedish anchors are known as Kronkiters; In Holland, they are Cronkiters.)
"He was a great broadcaster and a gentleman whose experience, honesty, professionalism and style defined the role of anchor and commentator," CBS Corp. chief executive Leslie Moonves said in a statement.
His 1968 editorial declaring the United States was "mired in stalemate" in Vietnam was seen by some as a turning point in U.S. opinion of the war. He also helped broker the 1977 invitation that took Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem, the breakthrough to Egypt's peace treaty with Israel.
He followed the 1960s space race with open fascination, anchoring marathon broadcasts of major flights from the first suborbital shot to the first moon landing, exclaiming, "Look at those pictures, wow!" as Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon's surface in 1969. In 1998, for CNN, he went back to Cape Canaveral to cover John Glenn's return to space after 36 years.
"It is impossible to imagine CBS News, journalism or indeed America without Walter Cronkite," CBS News president Sean McManus said in a statement. "More than just the best and most trusted anchor in history, he guided America through our crises, tragedies and also our victories and greatest moments."
He had been scheduled to speak last January for the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., but ill health prevented his appearance.
Off camera, his stamina and admittedly demanding ways brought him the nickname "Old Ironpants." But to viewers, he was "Uncle Walter," with his jowls and grainy baritone, his warm, direct expression and his trim mustache.
When he summed up the news each evening by stating, "And THAT's the way it is," millions agreed. His reputation survived accusations of bias by Richard Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew, and being labeled a "pinko" in the tirades of a fictional icon, Archie Bunker of CBS's "All in the Family."
Two polls ****ounced Cronkite the "most trusted man in America": a 1972 "trust index" survey in which he finished No. 1, about 15 points higher than leading politicians, and a 1974 survey in which people chose him as the most trusted television newscaster.
Like fellow Midwesterner Johnny Carson, Cronkite seemed to embody the nation's mainstream. When he broke down as he announced Kennedy's death, removing his glasses and fighting back tears, the times seemed to break down with him.
And when Cronkite took sides, he helped shape the times. After the 1968 Tet offensive, he visited Vietnam and wrote and narrated a "speculative, personal" report advocating negotiations leading to the withdrawal of American troops.
"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," he said, and concluded, "We are mired in stalemate."
After the broadcast, President Johnson reportedly said, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/07/ap_Cronkite_071709/

[Jurinko]

Guys you are lucky he didn´t cover the WWII. You should lose after German counter-attack in Ardennes, not sure about the Casserine Pass fiasco.


"This war can not be won!"

[dave81]

And now you know...the rest of the story.

Oops. Wrong guy. RIP.

[Eagle The Lightning]

Rest in peace

[Korath]

Guys you are lucky he didn´t cover the WWII. You should lose after German counter-attack in Ardennes, not sure about the Casserine Pass fiasco.


"This war can not be won!"

He did cover WWII. It was before TV times, though.

Rest in peace!

[tluassa]

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1592997,00.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1593006,00.jpg
with Dwight in Normandy

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1593001,00.jpg
with Truman

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1593004,00.jpg
with Kennedy 1963

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1593006,00.jpg
Emmy 1979

[rgjbloke]

Rest in peace.

[ZARDOZ]

Guys you are lucky he didn´t cover the WWII. You should lose after German counter-attack in Ardennes, not sure about the Casserine Pass fiasco.


"This war can not be won!"


Are you saying he was wrong? Pray thee, tell us how?

[Holmes85]

Are you saying he was wrong? Pray thee, tell us how?

Lets try to stay on topic here.

[Soldat_Américain]

What's sad is that a man such as Walter Cronkite died quietly without most of the people in the United States knowing, I wouldn't have known except the Army Times posted an Article. But stupid overdose myself Jackson has gotten three weeks of air time drowning out important things. I never got to see Cronkite but if he was anything like Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, or Dan Rather then I understand what he was broadcasting.

[Korath]

I really enjoyed a book: A REPORTER'S LIFE - WALTER CRONKITE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

[cmill]

..And that's the way it is, July 17th, 2009.

R.I.P

[brainplay]

What's sad is that a man such as Walter Cronkite died quietly without most of the people in the United States knowing, I wouldn't have known except the Army Times posted an Article. But stupid overdose myself Jackson has gotten three weeks of air time drowning out important things. I never got to see Cronkite but if he was anything like Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, or Dan Rather then I understand what he was broadcasting.

Cronkite was from a different era. His best times were long long past. The problem though is that during Vietnam he made alot of enemies. From that point on he began to interject more and more of his own personal agenda into his reporting as he got older. Ironically this seems to be a re-occurring theme with alot of journalists.

By the end of his career he was much like Elvis. His biggest fans were already dead or on their last legs. Many of the younger people wanted to remember fondly the great early years....while wishing he would hurry up and die quietly..... They got their wish. I had to explain to a cousin who the guy was. :|

[shadower]

CNN my main source sais one of the key players during Vietnam war.Anti war perhaps.

[brainplay]

CNN my main source sais one of the key players during Vietnam war.Anti war perhaps.

He flat out said the war was "unwinnable" from the onset. From someone with Cronkite's credentials that was something taken serious.

After the Tet offensive he made his famous quote: "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. … But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could."

I wonder what Mastermind's thoughts are on him.