What do I regret? Well, I regret that in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation.
Many of regret the fact that Cronkite was ultimately proven to be driven more by his political beliefs than by the standards of professional journalism.
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We'll be friends until we're old and senile. Then we'll be new friends.
-Anon.
"Ultimately proven?" How is that? I have seen no such proof. Indeed, I haven't seen anything indicating he didn't have very high journalistic standards.
Here's an interesting quote from 1988 when he was still promoting liberalism from his anchor seat. I think this was before he and his wife took the Clintons and their daughter sailing. Yes, I'm sure of it.
"I know liberalism isn't dead in this country. It simply has, temporarily we hope, lost its voice....We know that unilateral action in Grenada and Tripoli was wrong. We know that 'Star Wars' means uncontrollable escalation of the arms race. We know that the real threat to democracy is the half of the nation in poverty. We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child....Gawd Almighty, we've got to shout these truths in which we believe from the housetops. Like that scene in the movie 'Network,' we've got to throw open our windows and shout these truths to the streets and the heavens. And I bet we'll find more windows are thrown open to join the chorus than we'd ever dreamed possible." former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, at a November People for the American Way banquet. Quoted in the December 5, 1988 Newsweek.
Starr's Probe "More Divisive" than Vietnam, Hounding Clinton with "Excessive Zeal" On October 13, 1998 Cronkite told CBS This MorningsMark McEwen that unless "peccadilloes got in the way of performing the job" we should ignore it since "I dont think we should be digging into other peoples private lives." Despite Monicas favors occurring in work areas and during official phone calls, Cronkite maintained it met his "private affair" standard. Hours later at a luncheon with reporters, Cronkite called Starrs investigation "more divisive" to the country than Vietnam, Peter Johnson reported in the October 14 USA Today. After accusing Starr of "considerable excessive zeal," Johnson relayed that Cronkite "says hed like to get Kenneth Starr out on the boat, presumably to give him a piece of his mind."
And this is cool:
"We [as a nation] are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders," CBS News legend Walter Cronkite told the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication last week.
And this:
"Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the] torture and the burning of heretics Muslims in particular. Now, of course, I am not accusing the Attorney General of pulling out anyone's fingernails or burning people at the stake (at least I don't know of any such cases). But one does get the sense these days that the old Spaniard's spirit is comfortably at home in Ashcroft's Department of Justice." Cronkite in his syndicated column published in the September 22, 2003 Philadelphia Inquirer
And consipracies! Just like a moonbat!
Walter Cronkite charged that Karl Rove "probably" arranged for a videotaped message from Osama bin Laden to show up just before the 2004 election: "I have a feeling that it [bin Ladens new videotape] could tilt the election a bit. In fact, Im a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing. The advantage to the Republican side is to get rid of, as a principal subject of the campaign right now, get rid of the whole problem of the al Qaqaa dump, explosive dump. Right now that, the last couple of days, has, I think, upset the Republican campaign." Cronkite on CNNs Larry King Live, October 29, 2004.
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We'll be friends until we're old and senile. Then we'll be new friends.
-Anon.
So, count this a "victory" for your ability to label others with no thought attached.
LOL! Author! author!
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me. and since I am a moonbat, I am more likely to be accurate than you.
see how it works?
I'm sure I've called you an idiot, but, you are clearly not. I guess you probably fall under the category of "Purposely, and Proudly, Ignorant" ... that is a sad commentary for a country founded on the principles of needing an educated electorate to survive.
I'm sure I've called you an idiot, but, you are clearly not. I guess you probably fall under the category of "Purposely, and Proudly, Ignorant" ... that is a sad commentary for a country founded on the principles of needing an educated electorate to survive.
Not that you would notice(obviously), but for the last year-plus here, your level of non-copied commentary has seldom reached beyond the ninth grade.(see above comment) So any time you tire of your shallow participation here(speaking of Vegas odds), and decide to grab one end of just any bone that comes to mind, you just go ahead and latch on. I'll be along, you can be sure.
gus.
This message has been edited by gus-mccrea on Jul 19, 2009 11:05 PM This message has been edited by gus-mccrea on Jul 19, 2009 11:04 PM
Not that you would notice(obviously), but for the last year-plus here, your level of non-copied commentary has seldom reached beyond the ninth grade.(see above comment) So any time you tire of your shallow participation here(speaking of Vegas odds), and decide to grab one end of just any bone that comes to mind, you just go ahead and latch on. I'll be along, you can be sure.
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You see, there you go again (paraphrased from Reagan), how would you actually know what "going beyond the ninth grade" is? Do you think that you are an epitome of the higher reaches of intellect?
You want to be treated with respect? Try it in reverse and see what happens.
[and, the thing about "vegas odds"? that was directed at poetse... and he couldn't win a scholarship to San Quentin]
Not that you would notice(obviously), but for the last year-plus here, your level of non-copied commentary has seldom reached beyond the ninth grade.(see above comment) So any time you tire of your shallow participation here(speaking of Vegas odds), and decide to grab one end of just any bone that comes to mind, you just go ahead and latch on. I'll be along, you can be sure.
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You see, there you go again (paraphrased from Reagan), how would you actually know what "going beyond the ninth grade" is? Do you think that you are an epitome of the higher reaches of intellect?
I had every confidence that your response would do nothing more than underscore my above opinion. A confidence born of intellect, I might add. Shallow is just too egocentric, comfortable, and non-threatening. Enjoy...
I had every confidence that your response would do nothing more than underscore my above opinion. A confidence born of intellect, I might add. Shallow is just too egocentric, comfortable, and non-threatening.
How was that liberal bias? Is anything that isn't blindly gung-ho "liberal?"
Here's an interesting quote from 1988 when he was still promoting liberalism from his anchor seat. I think this was before he and his wife took the Clintons and their daughter sailing. Yes, I'm sure of it.
Cronkite retired his anchor chair in 1981.
You have provided zero evidence that he allowed bias, liberal or otherwise, to affect his reporting.
And Oh My God! He took the Clintons sailing! That practically makes him a Marxist, doesn't it? He regularly took members of the Grateful Dead sailing too - obviously he was an acid freak too.
This message has been edited by jrooth on Jul 20, 2009 11:45 AM
The bastard! How dare he fraternize with those lowlife scum of the earth Clinton's! ARGH! And The Grateful Dead??? Acid wasn't all he was using if he dared spend any time in the company of those filthy Un-American Marxist, communist, socialist bastards!
[sarcasm]
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poetse; Those incapable of lerning never made it to the third dauy of class.
AJC; The students must have been relieved to get a replacement teacher on the third day.
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