PHOENIX — NBC newsman Brian Williams said Wednesday he's not sure if Walter Cronkite would have succeeded in the age of cable news, blogs and Tw...
Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...
Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
I may not be British, but for the past three decades, I have kept a stiff upper lip. Now, after all these years of hair-raising adventure, I am celebrating the 30th anniversary of my mustache.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
No one contends that Tom Friedman has the influence that Walter Cronkite did, but could Friedman's anti-Afghanistan editorial mark a similar war-time shift in thinking?
Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.28.2009 | Comedy
"When we put together This Is It, we thought it was it, but it turns out it wasn't it," said Sony spokesperson Carol Foyler.
AP | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media
AUSTIN, Texas — A University of Texas official says Walter Cronkite's papers and photographs will be permanently housed at the Austin campus and...
Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media
If Jonathan Klein were as responsible an executive as Ted Turner, and as conscientious a citizen as Ted Turner, he would be as concerned as Ted Turner about the danger of Lou Dobbs.
Posted 10.08.2009 | Comedy
"South Park" returned last night with an episode called "I See Dead Celebrities," in which Billy Mays, David Carradine, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, Wa...
Rob Fishman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media
It's clear that Cameron Todd Willingham was (mis)tried by a kangaroo court, but will justice be better served by the media zoo that's ensued?
The New York Observer | Max Abelson | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media
After Walter Cronkite died this July at age 92, it was sad to think that brokers would be clamoring for an apartment that had belonged to someone with...
Stephen Viscusi | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
Bosses..does that make the point any easier to remember? At least once a month, I get a call from a TV producer or reporter, who is covering a stor...
Roderick Spencer | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media
It strikes me as downright surreal that Stewart and Colbert, and not the 'real' anchorpersons, seem to be the people on TV who actively adhere to concepts like fairness, primary sources and facts.
Tom Gregory | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment
Across the pages of leading fashion magazines mindless stars with thin careers are being showcased wearing Future Heretics t-shirts glamorizing guns.
USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 09.23.2009 | Media
A search of the agency's main index of the subjects of FBI investigations found some records tied to Cronkite's name were destroyed in October 2007, t...
AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 11.21.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — We had been told to expect the deaths of the famous to come in threes, not in the dozens. But all through the summer of 2009 came a ...
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
War is now the American way, even if peace is what most Americans experience while their proxies fight in distant lands. Any serious alternative to war is increasingly inconceivable.
Steven G. Brant | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
President Obama called on America's journalists -- and the media executives for whom they work -- to recommit themselves to the standards of journalism that Walter Cronkite practiced.
Rory O'Connor | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
At the normally staid Council on Foreign Relations' 60th anniversary celebration of the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship, denial was the order of the day.
Daily Nightly | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
There is a lesson in the way he lived his life, and in how he did his job. We won't ever see a man like Walter again. We won't ever see another anchor...
Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
Bill Clinton spoke Wednesday morning at the memorial service for Walter Cronkite in New York. Clinton — who said that his mother initially pref...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — By all accounts, Walter Cronkite would have loved the war stories swapped and memories rekindled at his memorial service. All that wa...
Sam Leff | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Some forty years after Walter Cronkite told it like it was and called the Chicago of 1968 "a police state," Tom Brokaw, A.O. Scott, and Andie Tucher told their own versions -- like it wasn't.
Steven G. Brant | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
If Walter Cronkite were alive today, I wonder what he would say to us -- as he looked out over the landscape of another war that can't be won.
Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
The memorial for legendary newsman Walter Cronkite is being held today. Watch the memorial, along with President Obama's speech, via the live MSNBC ...
Dr. Abraham Froman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Style
This week the American Mustache Institute (AMI) opened nominations for the second annual "Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year."
AP | TERRY TANG | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media