tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post5267983397263559682..comments2024-03-28T05:47:44.752-05:00Comments on RIFLES AT DAWN: There'll Never Be Another Walter CronkiteTim Morrisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00457723301178870851noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-70160402148104427752009-07-22T06:57:43.822-05:002009-07-22T06:57:43.822-05:00It is said the term "anchorman" was coin...It is said the term "anchorman" was coined to describe Walter Cronkite's role in the 1952 political conventions. A Wikipedia entry says the word entered the American lexicon on July 7, 1952. In his memoir, "Tell Me a Story," CBS News producer and director Don Hewitt said he wasn't sure whether he'd coined the term or if the honor belonged to his boss, Sig Mickelson. He observed that, regardless of the term's provenance, Cronkite quickly became recognized as not just an anchorman,' but THE anchorman.<br /><br />What was it about Cronkite that has lodged itself in our collective consciousness? Correspondent Morrissey has explained it well. Cronkite didn't just read the news, he covered it. He brought us the 20th century, took us to the moon and brought our brothers and sons and friends home from a pointless, diplomatic error of a war that had gone on far, far too long.<br /><br />His famous CBS Evening News sign-off line was "And that's the way it is..." But he had another sign-off - from "You Are There," the long-running history-based TV series he hosted that better explains, to me at least, why I could watch and listen with a mixture of trust and admiration that no other news person has merited before or since. It suggests why he touched our lives so profoundly.<br /><br />After his guiding narrative revealed the story behind an historic event, Cronkite would step through the Fourth Wall and, with these words, remind us that news is nothing more than the first draft of history: "What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times ... and you were there."hieronymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-22417821034158428142009-07-21T09:57:30.520-05:002009-07-21T09:57:30.520-05:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBIRE7g5ybo
If y...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBIRE7g5ybo<br /> <br />If you hurry you may yet see this interview before the corporate media removes it<br />I met Walter Cronkite in New York and found him to be privately a very anti-corporate person, and extremely anti - war.antpoppanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-275177835318098432009-07-21T09:55:35.805-05:002009-07-21T09:55:35.805-05:00"Julie Chen spends her summers hosting a bad ..."Julie Chen spends her summers hosting a bad reality show for CBS (Big Brother) and then slides back into her "morning news person" role the rest of the time."<br /><br />People tend to forget that for a period of time Walter Cronkite was on the CBS morning news show opposite the Today show on NBC. One of the "highlights" of that show was Walter discussing the news with the puppet Charlemagne.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com