That was GREAT and an admirable trait, unlike much of what I find in so called Social Media. See earlier posts for what I think are topics that are inappropriate for Facebook, etc. Below are Cronkite quotes I think are still VERY RELEVANT in our Brave New World regarding an "Adolescent Technology."
JA
Walter Cronkite was the anchor of the evening TV news show called “The CBS Evening News” for many years (from 1962 until 1981) and became known as “the most trusted man in America.”
- Television is a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.
- In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story
- Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day – 23 minutes – and that’s supposed to be enough.
- Our job is only to hold up the mirror – to tell and show the public what has happened.
- Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
- I am dumbfounded that there hasn’t been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.
- I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
- The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
- There’s a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
- I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.
- “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost the country.” President Lyndon B. Johnson
- It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.
- Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl. Walter has always wanted to go that way, but he’s going to have to settle for a 17-footer with a 70-year-old.
- When you’re bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.
- We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
I don’t think those things live forever with the public. They’re more likely to live with us journalists than the public itself. - GOING OUT ON A LIMB: { Call me arrogant but I think both are pretty supremely stupid, biased and uninformed. We know more about Dancing with the Stars than where the Straits of Hormuz are. - JA }
I don’t think those things live forever with the public. They’re more likely to live with us journalists than the public itself. - GOING OUT ON A LIMB: { Call me arrogant but I think both are pretty supremely stupid, biased and uninformed. We know more about Dancing with the Stars than where the Straits of Hormuz are. - JA }