Walter Cronkite

Yesterday's Events and Conversation Pieces

Carol Hoenig | Posted 12.13.2008 | Living

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Carol Hoenig

Apparently, there are certain magazines and newspapers with Barack Obama's image after having won the election that are collector's items. I'm pleased...

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Send in the Clowns - With Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Entry into the Presidential Race, American Politics has Officially Become a Circus

Mario Almonte | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

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Mario Almonte

When clowns become the single, most powerful influence on the election of the American president, you know that our country has finally come to realiz...

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Media and Political Things to Ponder While Stuck in Traffic

Tom Alderman | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media

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Tom Alderman

• If a Walter Cronkite auditioned for a major news anchor job today, he would not get on the call-back sheet. The moustache, alone, would kil...

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The "Absurd" TV News Cult Of Personality

Los Angeles Times | Howard Rosenberg | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Anderson Cooper, News Anchors, News Personalities, Walter Cronkite, Katie Couric, Media News

Tailored suit, tasteful hair, good posture, all business, only rare hints of perkiness. I've been checking out Katie Couric, really putting the evil ...

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Tom Brokaw, You're No Tim Russert

Mark Joseph | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media

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Mark Joseph

Please NBC, let Brokaw resume his status as elder statesmen and reminder to us all of a generation of newsmen who seemed to think that they were better and smarter than their viewers.

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Roger Mudd's Revenge

Al Eisele | Posted 04.27.2008 | Media

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Al Eisele

Former CBS newsman Roger Mudd has written his memoir, and it's not likely to endear him to his former colleagues.

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Walter Cronkite To Join Retirement Living TV

Baltimore Sun | David Zurawik | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Walter Cronkite, the most widely known and respected anchorman in network TV history, will be joining the Columbia-based Retirement Living TV channel ...

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In Bloggo Gravitas: BriWi On SNL, In His Own Words

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Why should Williams cross his fingers and hope his message takes with reporters when he can get it out there himself? He's a blogger, dammit, no man speaks for him!

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Clooney Lets Cronkite Handle His Oscar

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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On Monday, George Clooney stopped by "Late Night With David Letterman" to promote his film "Michael Clayton." After being asked about his Oscar, the a...

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Cronkite Comes Back

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Retirement Living TV, Comebacks, CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite, Media News

In accordance with CBS policy at the time, Walter Cronkite retired from the "CBS Evening News" in 1981 at age 65. "Old anchormen, you see, don't fade...

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Cronkite: Iraq "A Disaster...We Should Have Gotten Out A Long Time Ago"

CBS 5 | Hank Plante | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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It was in 1968, when CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite did a tour of Vietnam, and came back highly critical of that war. His pronouncement that the Vietn...

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Walter Cronkite Says Couric's New Show "Somewhat Revolutionary"...

Baltimore Sun | Annie Linskey | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Legendary broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite, visiting Annapolis yesterday to receive an honor from the new National Sailing Hall of Fame, voiced s...

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Cronkite Slams TV News...

Newsvine | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Walter Cronkite has castigated producers of the network nightly newscasts for including stories about "your health and mine and your backyard and mine...

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Huff Po's Cronkite: US Is Without Doubt The Greatest Culprit Among Them

The Huffington Post | Walter Cronkite | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the con...

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