The cable news shows tonight have thrown their schedules out and are running tributes. I can't think of any newsman who deserves them more.
Bill Banaszak
OT: RIP Walter Cronkite
Jul 18, 2009
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second only to edward r murrow in my pantheon. murrow's 30 minute destruction of mccarthyism is still the best 30 minutes of tv ever. walter was second in place but equal to.
There was another great journalist: David Halberstam
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Too true...
thanks
Anyone else remember :
"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."
From the "You Are There" TV series Walter did from '53 to '57.
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Jack G.
Oh yes. I loved watching stuff like that. I remember watching "Twentieth Century" with the parents back when I was a kid and I have a few of the "Airpower" shows on tape. I got those back when Discovery Channel had interesting programming. Why is it that the technical aspects of TV alledgedly have improved but the quality is in the sewer?
Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
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