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Walter Cronkite

The Mustache Movement

Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Aclu, St. Louis, Ronald Reagan, Humor, Mustache, Thomas E. Dewey, Robert Goulet, Bill Geist, Groucho Marx, George Clooney, Cbs, Eric Holder, Brad Pitt, Stamford, Harry S. Truman, Attorney General, Humorist, Walter Cronkite, Banks, Lincoln Tunnel, William Howard Taft, Family, Fashion, Living News
Jerry Zezima

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.

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Is This Tom Friedman's "Walter Cronkite Moment" on Afghanistan?

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: New York Times, Thomas Friedman, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Escalation, Walter Cronkite, Politics News
Harvey Wasserman

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?

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Sony to Release This Is It Sequel, This Is Also It

Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.28.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Michael Jackson, Andy Borowitz, This Is It, Faa, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Walter Cronkite, Billy Mays, Facebook, Sony, Directv, Chris Farley, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

"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.

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Walter Cronkite Will Leaves Papers To University Of Texas

AP | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: University of Texas, Walter Cronkite University of Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Walter Cronkite Papers, Walter Cronkite Will, Walter Cronkite, Media News

AUSTIN, Texas — A University of Texas official says Walter Cronkite's papers and photographs will be permanently housed at the Austin campus and...

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Ted Turner Would Fire Lou Dobbs

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Latinos, CNN/US, Turner Enterprises, Cable News Network, Lou Dobbs, Immigration, Fox, Southern Poverty Law Center, Turner Broadcasting, Journalism, Ted Turner, Cnn, Acorn, Bias, Walter Cronkite, John Stossel, Reese Schonfeld, Glenn Beck, Jonathan Klein, Media News
Linda Milazzo

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.

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'South Park' Returns, Takes On 'Summer Of Death' With DJ AM, Farrah, MJ, Billy Mays And More (VIDEO)

Posted 10.08.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Michael Jackson, Video, South Park Video, South Park I See Dead Celebrities, South Park October 7, Walter Cronkite, Billy Mays, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, DJ AM, Bea Arthur, David Carradine, South Park, Chipoltaway, South Park Michael Jackson, South Park Chipoltaway, Comedy News

"South Park" returned last night with an episode called "I See Dead Celebrities," in which Billy Mays, David Carradine, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, Wa...

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Trial by Firefight

Rob Fishman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, David Grann, Time Magazine, Npr, Crosicana Daily Sun, Justice Department, Sam Bassett, Innocence Project, Slate, Msnbc, Executions, Kevin Spacey, New Yorker, Barry Scheck, Sandra Day O'Connor, John Bradley, Walter Cronkite, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Bob Herbert, The Life of David Gale, New York Times, Death Penalty, Rick Perry, Dalia Lithwick, Cameron Todd Willingham, Cameron Todd Willingham Innocent, Media News
Rob Fishman

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?

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Walter Cronkite's Apartment To Hit Market For Almost $3 Million, Listed By Companion Joanna Simon

The New York Observer | Max Abelson | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Walter Cronkite Joanna Simon, Walter Cronkite Apartment, Joanna Simon, Walter Cronkite, Media News

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...

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Warning to the Boss: Think of Having Sex with Your Employee as the Same as Incest!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Blackrock, Bill Clinton, MacKenzie Phillips, Sex Scandal, Incest, Career Advice, Jobs, The Ed Sullivan Theatre, Cbs, Bulletproof-Your-Resume, Tiffany Network, Bulletproof Your Job, High on Arrival, Walter Cronkite, Katie Couric, Office Romance, Bill O'Reilly, David Letterman, Business News
Stephen Viscusi

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...

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Fake News Is the Real News

Roderick Spencer | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Glen Beck, Walter Cronkite, Education, Real News, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Facts, Standards, Comedy, Fake News, Media News
Roderick Spencer

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.

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Mindless Stars and the Glamour of the Gun

Tom Gregory | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Lindsay Lohan, Mlk, Rfk, Fergie, Uzi, Kent State, Sarai Givati, Khloe Kardashian, Gun Violence, Gang Warfare, Hayden Panettiere, Future Heretics, Columbine, Gerald Ford, Vietnam War, Gun Control, Walter Cronkite, Charles Manson, Jfk, Bullets, Guns, Entertainment News
Tom Gregory

Across the pages of leading fashion magazines mindless stars with thin careers are being showcased wearing Future Heretics t-shirts glamorizing guns.

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Walter Cronkite Records Destroyed By FBI

USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 09.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Television, Foia, Records, National Archives, Research, Cronkite, Walter Cronkite, Fbi, Freedom of Information Act, Rosa Parks, FBI File, Alex Heard, Cbs, Media News

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...

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The End Of 2009's Summer Of Death

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Don Hewitt, Mary Travers, Farrah Fawcett, Dominick Dunne, Ted Kennedy, John Hughes, Dom Deluise, Robert S. McNamara, Walter Cronkite, Ed McMahon, Billy Mays, DJ AM, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Frank Mccourt, David Carradine, Patrick Swayze, Les Paul, Entertainment News

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 ...

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Is America Hooked on War?

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq-War-Obama, George Will, George Orwell, Afghanistan War, Walter Cronkite, George-Orwell-1984, Politics News
Tom Engelhardt

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.

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Health Care, Character, Journalism, and America's Future

Steven G. Brant | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Joe Wilson Obama, Character, NBC News, Joe Wilson, Katie Couric, Walter Cronkite, CBS News, Charlie Gibson, Media, ABC News, Health Care, Brian Williams, Barack Obama, Journalism, Quality, Media News
Steven G. Brant

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.

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Network News Chiefs: The Future's So Bright!

Rory O'Connor | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Sean McManus, Cnn, David Westin, Steve Capus, NBC News, Walter Cronkite, CBS News, ABC News, Jonathan Klein, Edward R. Murrow, Media News
Rory O'Connor

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.

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Brian Williams: "We Won't Ever See A Man Like Walter [Cronkite] Again"

Daily Nightly | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Walter Cronkite Memorial, Brian Williams, Brian Williams Walter Cronkite, Walter Cronkite, Media News

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...

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Bill Clinton At Walter Cronkite Memorial (VIDEO)

Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Walter Cronkite Memorial, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton Walter Cronkite Memorial, Walter Cronkite, Media News

Bill Clinton spoke Wednesday morning at the memorial service for Walter Cronkite in New York. Clinton — who said that his mother initially pref...

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Obama Salutes Walter Cronkite At Memorial Service

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Broadcast News, TV News, Cronkite Memorial, Jimmy Buffet, Obama, Cbs, Cronkite, New York, Clinton, Television, Walter Cronkite, Marsalis, Tv, Obama Speech, Wynton Marsalis, Media News

NEW YORK — By all accounts, Walter Cronkite would have loved the war stories swapped and memories rekindled at his memorial service. All that wa...

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That's The Way It Wasn't

Sam Leff | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1968 Democratic National Convention, Tom Brokaw, 1968, Yippies, Walter Cronkite, 1968 Election, A.O. Scott, Abbie Hoffman, Politics News
Sam Leff

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.

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"And That's The Way It Really Is": My Memorial to Walter Cronkite

Steven G. Brant | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Government, Citizenship, Birthers, John McCain, Vietnam War, Walter Cronkite, Fair and Balanced, CBS News, Cultural Wars, Barack Obama Citizenship, Barack Obama, Media News
Steven G. Brant

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.

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Walter Cronkite Memorial VIDEO: Obama Gives Speech

Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Walter Cronkite Memorial Video, Walter Cronkite, Video, Barack Obama, Obama Cronkite Speech Video, Obama Cronkite Speech, Walter Cronkite Funeral Video, Media News

The memorial for legendary newsman Walter Cronkite is being held today. Watch the memorial, along with President Obama's speech, via the live MSNBC ...

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Who Should Be the 'Goulet?'

Dr. Abraham Froman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Style

Read More: US Airways, Mustache, Cleveland Brown, Moustache, Ami, American Mustache Institute, Arizona Diamondbacks, St. Louis Cardinals, The Cleveland Show, Clay Zavada, George Clooney, Eric Holder, Sully, Brad Pitt, David Axelrod, Walter Cronkite, Sully Sullenberger, Style News
Dr. Abraham Froman

This week the American Mustache Institute (AMI) opened nominations for the second annual "Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year."

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Memories of Don Hewitt

Murray Fromson | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media

Read More: CBS News, Don Hewitt, Buck Zimmerman, Richard Nixon, 60 Minutes, Sandy Socolow, Walter Cronkite, Media News
Murray Fromson

I knew Don Hewitt when he was up and down, mostly up, and those who participated in Hewitt's shadow were grateful for the opportunity to be one of the lucky ones.

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Robert D. Novak Is in the Book

Scott Shrake | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Mike Wallace, Andrea Mitchell, Andy Rooney, Walter Cronkite, Crossfire, Washington DC, Valerie Plame, Robert Novak, Twitter, Facebook, Media News
Scott Shrake

Of course, Robert Novak was listed in the phone book. Or is it an "of course"? Let's break it down.

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