Comments on: Cronkite – News Media ‘Gold Standard’

By: proreason

proreason — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:11:41 +0000

http://www.americanthinker.com....._on_h.html

By: bronzeprofessor

bronzeprofessor — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:23:05 +0000

Apparently this is a classic duplicitous quote from Cronkite, 1970:

From Newsbusters

Well, we all have our prejudices, we all have our biases, we have a structural problem in writing a news story or presenting it on television as to time and length, position in the paper, position on the news broadcast. These things are all going to be affected by our own beliefs, of course they are. But we are professional journalists. This is the difference. We are trying to reach an objective state, we are trying to be objective. We have been taught from the day we went to school, when we began to know we wanted to be journalists, integrity, truth, honesty, and a definite attempt to be objective. We try to present the news as objectively as possible, whether we like it or don’t like it. Now that is objective.

Full URL: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/t.....point-view

By: bronzeprofessor

bronzeprofessor — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:17:04 +0000

I feel so out of the loop at my spry and untested age of 38. Zero memories of Cronkite here. I remember Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw better. Kid of the 80s. What about Jane Paulie, anyone remember her?

By: neocon mom

neocon mom — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:44:25 +0000

“And speaking of honesty, we could find no links using Google to anyone calling newscasters in Sweden or Holland “Kronkiters’ or ‘Cronkiters”

The word in German is “krankheit”. It literally means “sickness” or “illness”. I don’t speak any other tongues or dialects of the region, but I know there are many similarities, and it could well be why no one would want to be called such a term.

I had heard a story of Cronkite’s Jewish heritage, and that Prussians in keeping track of Jews and forcing them into neighborhoods, would officially rename them insulting and humiliating terms. While this sounds feasible, given the veracity of Cronkite’s reporting over the years, the story as it relates to his ancestry must be called into question.

He did indeed bring an “illness” to the profession that has metastasized and looks untreatable.

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:28:57 +0000

Nancy Pelosi?

By: Warmonger Infidel

Warmonger Infidel — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:27:27 +0000

Cronkite and McNamara…

Guilty of the same crimes, dead in the same week.

Nuff said.

By: jrmcdonald

jrmcdonald — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:24:59 +0000

Remember the joke that Mark Twain had about his Father? It was, ‘ when I was 12, I thought my Father was the most stupid man I knew; when I turned 21, I was suprized how much he had learned.’

I feel the same way about Cronkrite, only in reverse.

By: rocketman

rocketman — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:47:43 +0000

Senator Harry Reid

By: Colonel1961

Colonel1961 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:46:42 +0000

He defined ‘useful idiot’. Let him rot in hell…

By: David

David — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:10:58 +0000

God has a sense of irony... To juxtapose Cronkite; the world's oldest man, veteran of two world wars and founding member of the RAF passed away as well. Yesterday I was browsing through youtube videos of Cronkite. I was impressed just by the major events he had the privilege of covering (Being a Reagan baby myself). Now I can think instead o the even bigger window of life that Mr. Henry Allingham witnessed. Godspeed Mr. Allingham.

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:56:13 +0000

Suffice to say, “Sail on Sailor!”

By: LewWaters

LewWaters — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:15:17 +0000

Well over 40,000 American Troops lost their lives after Cronkite joined in with others undermining our efforts there and actually extending the war, not shortening it.

I can only hope he will face each and every one of those Brave Souls in his descent to hell.

By: U NO HOO

U NO HOO — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:26:31 +0000

“WhoreHouse Harry”

Who is that?

By: rocketman

rocketman — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:12:09 +0000

Right on SJ !! I was there and as you said, we kicked the crap out of them… Wonder what WhoreHouse Harry would have said?

By: VMAN

VMAN — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:00:39 +0000

I must say when I say this article on S&L I held my breath. Would there be a bunch of soaring eulogies to the man? I should have known better and I apologize to everyone. My father, a life long Republican, couldn’t stand the man and for good reason. It just too bad that we will now have to go through, probably, weeks of praise for the man, even on Fox.

By: jobeth

jobeth — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:18:16 +0000

Catie…I’m with you on the Fox coverage!!!!! I was so angry at the non stop 15 minute loop of comments on how wonderful he was. Every 15 minutes! We first thought they would say their bit and Hannity would be broadcast. But no…how silly we were..They continued to repeat the SAME loop.

At 11 the reruns come on…and they kept cutting in to those as well. I finally gave up. I was sick of watching the same video loop as well.

Hey Fox…..Enough!!!! We know he is gone…sorry for his family…and we expect a mention of his memorial service, but STOP the over the top coverage!!!! I feel like I’m watching a Michael Jackson rerun.