Walter Cronkite

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Kucinich Keeps Single-Payer Alive

Michael Carmichael | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Amy Goodman, Health Care Reform, Single Payer, Democracy Now, Dennis Kucinich, Walter Cronkite, Health Care Reform Congress, Congress, Kucinich, Universal Health Care, Politics News

While Americans pay more for their health care than any other nation, more Americans realize that they are not getting their money's worth.

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Jon Stewart: Still The Most Trusted Newscaster in America

Nancy Snow | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Most Trusted Newscaster, Most Trusted Man in America, Jon Stewart, Walter Cronkite, Crossfire, Shtick Journalism, Paul Begala, Tucker Carlson, Fake News, Media News

Just last Friday we lost the most trusted man in America. This week we've anointed a fake journalist his replacement. Or so Time magazine would have us believe.

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Walter Cronkite's Funeral: LIVE VIDEO

Huffington Post | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

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Watch live streaming video of Walter Cronkite's funeral, November 4, 1916 - July 17, 2009. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News ab...

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Walter: Everywhere and Forever

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Paris, CBS News, Nairobi, Vienna, New York, Concorde, Walter Cronkite, Media News

My memories of Walter Cronkite are very precious. We met just over 30 years ago, when I was a junior correspondent in the Paris bureau of CBS News.

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Post-Cronkite Journos: The Battle of Advocates, Narcissists & Sleuths

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 08.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Journalists, Power Grid, Dan Abrams, Walter Cronkite, President Obama, Wilshire and Washington, Narcissism, Ted Johnson, Media, Rachel Sklar, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein, Mom Jeans, Mediaite, Media News

Mediaite.com's Power Grid uses an algorithm to determine the top voices in 12 different media categories. Does the feature inspire a narcissistic-type of journalism, with people trying to game the system?

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And That's the Way It Was...

Murray Fromson | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

Read More: CBS News, Ernie Leiser, Peter Kalisher, Vietnam, Walter Cronkite, CBS Evening News, Media News

When I first met Cronkite, he was a hawk, a supporter of the conflict in Vietnam like so many Americans of his generation. What led to his profound change of heart about the war?

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Three Updates and an Addendum

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Walter Cronkite, Al-Shabab, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, United Nations, Donald Rumsfeld, Somalia, Ieds, News, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, T. Michael Moseley, Al Qaeda, Media News

Every time Dan Rather was on camera, there was an elephant in the room --there is no question that it was Dan Rather who pushed Walter Cronkite out at least a year before he wanted to go.

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Open Letter to the Next Generation of Cronkites

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

Read More: News Anchors, Anchorman, Youth Radio, TV News, Network News, Walter Cronkite, Ellin O'Leary, CBS News, Digital Journalism, Youthradio, Cbs, Journalism, CBS Evening News, Edward R. Murrow, Media News

As we embrace Twitter and the blog, we must also be committed to forging a new pathway to the truth and the hard work of uncovering the information necessary to sustain a healthy democracy.

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Walter Cronkite: What America Lost

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

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It may be difficult for people under the age of 40 to fathom what an imprint Walter Cronkite had on my generation. He has been called the most trusted man in America, and possibly he was.

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Walter Cronkite, 3 Mile Island & "Lamar's Folly" in the Climate Bill

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Nuclear Power, No Nukes, Networks, Solartopia, Walter Cronkite, CBS News, Three-Mile-Island-Anniversary, Nuclear-Renaissance, Atomic Disaster, Media, Fermi Nuclear Plant, Three Mile Island, Green News

It is critical that calls start pouring into Congress. The nation -- the world -- cannot afford more Three Mile Islands, especially now that Walter Cronkite is no longer around to report on them.

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The End of Literacy?

Bill Cunningham | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

Read More: History, You Are There, New York City Schools, English Language, Frank Mccourt, Walter Cronkite, Media News

Walter Cronkite and Frank McCourt taught us the power of words, simple and direct, and a story well told. Let us hope that their passing is not the end of such grace and literacy.

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Jon Stewart, Brian Williams Assess Media's Desperate Seduction Of Sanford (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Sanford Emails, Jon Stewart, Video, Walter Cronkite, Mark Sanford, Brian Williams, Media News

Jon Stewart hosted NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams last night for the newsman's fourteenth appearance on The Daily Show. T...

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Walter Cronkite To Posthumously Guest Star on "Ghost Whisperer"

Craig Bierko | Posted 08.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Cbs, Humor, Craig Bierko, CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite, Comedy News

Cronkite will play "Alfred Keagan," a lovable bank security guard who can't seem to face the loss of his Korean war-bride.

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Farewell Mustachiopithicus

Dr. Abraham Froman | Posted 08.20.2009 | Style

Read More: Ami, American Mustache Institute, Mustache, Moustache, Walter Cronkite, Style News

I grew to admire Mr. Cronkite through our friendship and shared passion for the labia sebucula (Latin for "lip sweater).

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Five Things You Didn't Hear About Walter Cronkite

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

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Stories from before Cronkite was Cronkite

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The Way It Was (and Never Will Be Again)

Chez Pazienza | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

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The fact that Cronkite's nominal on-air progeny possess almost none of his ethical backbone and commitment to journalistic excellence highlights just how much the news industry has changed.

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Cronkite and Vietnam: Beyond the Hype

Norman Solomon | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

Read More: CBS News, War Made Easy, Lyndon Johnson, War Coverage, Journalism, Obit Omit, Vietnam War, Walter Cronkite, Media News

Despite the posthumous praise for Cronkite's February 1968 telecast that dubbed the war "a stalemate," the facts show that the broadcast came only after Cronkite's protracted support for the war.

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CBS To Keep Cronkite's Voice On "Evening News" Intro

AP | Brian Stelter | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — CBS says the voice of Walter Cronkite will continue to be heard announcing the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric." Cronkite record...

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Walter Cronkite and the Player Piano

Karen Ocamb | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Morton Dean, Ellen Degeneres, Walter Cronkite, Karen Ocamb, Roger Mudd, Watergate, Bob Schieffer, Lyndon Johnson, Dan Rather, Charles Kuralt, Bill Moyers, Media News

Cronkite was so important because he was about the only person in this intensely divided America that both sides could trust. He was our no-frills common bond.

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Michael Jackson and Walter Cronkite

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite, Walter Cronkite Dead, Michael Jackson Death, Michael Jackson Memorial, Michael Jackson Media Coverage, Politics News

We have lost all sense of proportion, balance and priority. The comparative response to these deaths can only be considered pathetic.

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Walter Cronkite PHOTOS: The Legendary Newsman Out In NY

Huffington Post | Posted 08.20.2009 | New York

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Legendary newsman, Walter Cronkite, passed away this Friday. The former CBS anchorman was a staple in the New York media world. Photographer Patrick ...

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Lessons From Walter

August J. Pollak | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cable News, Journalism, Walter Cronkite, Politics News

Truly, Cronkite taught us all.

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Cronkite and McCourt: True to Their Craft

Carol Hoenig | Posted 08.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Icon, Television, Honesty, Angela's Ashes, Walter Cronkite, Cancer, Wbbm, Frank Mccourt, A Reporter's Life, Irish, Catholic, Media, Living News

Pundits all praise Cronkite for his journalistic accomplishments, as though they are unattainable today. And maybe they are, thanks to the corporate-owned media.

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