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Thread #122343   Message #2683046
Posted By: Lonesome EJ
18-Jul-09 - 06:39 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Walter Cronkite, newsman, July 2009
Subject: RE: Obit: Walter Cronkite, newsman, July 2009
I am with Bill on this one, PT. No one has enough information to be completely objective, including you and me. I think Cronkite on assignment and Cronkite at the news desk did his best at objective reporting. I don't think he was selling an agenda beyond what he believed, himself, to be true. Are our priorities different today than they were in 1965? Yes. Has our perspective changed on what the facts of the day were in 1965? Yes. We benefit from that viewpoint today, but it is wrong to condemn Cronkite for not achieving that perspective 40 years ago. The fact that he provided a calm voice in a turbulent era of rapid change will endear him forever to many of those who also experienced it.