Comments on: Walter Cronkite has Died http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:39:17 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: laborite57 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1938006 laborite57 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:48:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1938006 <p>I’ll always have a fond memory of Cronkite that most FDL pups will appreciate. </p> <p>I was part of a group of college freshman that a would gather every day to watch the nightly news down in the room of one of the other students. At the end of the broadcast, after Walter assured us “And that’s the way it is” we would all shout “No, goddamit, that isn’t that the way it is.” </p> <p>We were all 18 and, of course, we knew everything.</p> I’ll always have a fond memory of Cronkite that most FDL pups will appreciate.

I was part of a group of college freshman that a would gather every day to watch the nightly news down in the room of one of the other students. At the end of the broadcast, after Walter assured us “And that’s the way it is” we would all shout “No, goddamit, that isn’t that the way it is.”

We were all 18 and, of course, we knew everything.

]]> By: KayInMaine http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937948 KayInMaine Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:21:16 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937948 <p>What a sad day. RIP Walter. </p> <p>I remember as a little girl Walter Cronkite always on the tv and was confused to learn later on that there were two other news channels besides CBS Channel 13! I was born in 1968 and still have a few memories of my mother pulling me out of the livingroom after my father told her to do so, because of the images of the Vietnam war being played out on the tv. I still remember Cronkite’s voice as I left the room.</p> What a sad day. RIP Walter.

I remember as a little girl Walter Cronkite always on the tv and was confused to learn later on that there were two other news channels besides CBS Channel 13! I was born in 1968 and still have a few memories of my mother pulling me out of the livingroom after my father told her to do so, because of the images of the Vietnam war being played out on the tv. I still remember Cronkite’s voice as I left the room.

]]> By: DeanOR http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937874 DeanOR Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:10:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937874 <p>There is a part of me that is still haunted by the sound of Cronkite’s voice up-dating the number of Americans dead in Vietnam, day after day after day. He helped turn the country around with that alone.</p> There is a part of me that is still haunted by the sound of Cronkite’s voice up-dating the number of Americans dead in Vietnam, day after day after day. He helped turn the country around with that alone.

]]> By: macaquerman http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937797 macaquerman Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:35:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937797 <p>The comment was interesting, lengthy, mostly off-topic, and wasn’t as well-rounded as it might have been. It was a somewhat of a rosy personal recollection of journalism rather than a fully-rounded analysis.<br /> I enjoyed it and absolutely agreed it would have been better introduced on it’s own, instead of grafted onto this Cronkite consideration.</p> The comment was interesting, lengthy, mostly off-topic, and wasn’t as well-rounded as it might have been. It was a somewhat of a rosy personal recollection of journalism rather than a fully-rounded analysis.
I enjoyed it and absolutely agreed it would have been better introduced on it’s own, instead of grafted onto this Cronkite consideration.

]]> By: Larue http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937785 Larue Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:27:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937785 <p>I completely disagree with you and Echan . . . the comment was mighty, lengthy, and rightous.</p> <p>Harumph.</p> I completely disagree with you and Echan . . . the comment was mighty, lengthy, and rightous.

Harumph.

]]> By: Larue http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937781 Larue Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:24:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937781 <p>Hell of a long comment, and true to it’s core. Thanks. </p> <p>As a former journo, TV, and Radio guy, I’m with ya thru your entire piece.</p> <p>Damn if we haven’t lost it all along the way.</p> <p>And only a concerted effort to regain it all, will redeem the loss of Walter.</p> <p>Damn I miss him and Molly and Hunter.</p> Hell of a long comment, and true to it’s core. Thanks.

As a former journo, TV, and Radio guy, I’m with ya thru your entire piece.

Damn if we haven’t lost it all along the way.

And only a concerted effort to regain it all, will redeem the loss of Walter.

Damn I miss him and Molly and Hunter.

]]> By: Larue http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937777 Larue Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:20:35 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937777 <p>NIce pics SB . . . nice pics. Well done.</p> NIce pics SB . . . nice pics. Well done.

]]> By: Larue http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937774 Larue Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:18:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937774 <p>So many grand offerings on Mr. Cronkite’s legacy.</p> <p>As a journo and radio/tv person in the 70’s and 80’s, I gotta honor Uncle Walt too.</p> <p>What he meant to us all, as we were growin up in junior and high school, is impossible to describe.</p> <p>He brought us the truth, when were were 12, and when we were 20.</p> <p>He brought us the truth. </p> <p>Bless him. They don’t make them like him no mo. </p> <p>He was a hoss. </p> <p>I miss him, Molly, Hunter, and others so much . . . </p> <p>And I stand for them, still. Dammit.</p> So many grand offerings on Mr. Cronkite’s legacy.

As a journo and radio/tv person in the 70’s and 80’s, I gotta honor Uncle Walt too.

What he meant to us all, as we were growin up in junior and high school, is impossible to describe.

He brought us the truth, when were were 12, and when we were 20.

He brought us the truth.

Bless him. They don’t make them like him no mo.

He was a hoss.

I miss him, Molly, Hunter, and others so much . . .

And I stand for them, still. Dammit.

]]> By: emerson http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937735 emerson Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:41:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937735 <p>CSPN is now airing an excellent interview of Cronkite.</p> CSPN is now airing an excellent interview of Cronkite.

]]> By: greenwarrior http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937663 greenwarrior Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:04:54 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/17/walter-cornkite-has-died/#comment-1937663 <p>i liked the post and don’t care for your tone to this person.</p> i liked the post and don’t care for your tone to this person.

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