Walter Cronkite, Anchor, Icon, Documentarian, Dead at 92

Walter Cronkite, the man who would define the role of the serious television news anchor, died earlier today at 92 in New York.  (Obituaries and thoughts from the NY Times, CBS News, Roger Ebert, Washington Post's Howard Kurtz, NBC's Brian Williams, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and the LA Times.)

Much has already been (and will continue to be) made of Cronkite's reputation as "the most trusted man in America" as well as his turning against the Vietnam War (which led President Johnson to believe that he'd lost the support of middle Americans for the war effort).  Less has been said about the Missouri native's contributions to documentary, particularly television documentaries in the years during and after his tenure at CBS News.

From CBS Statement today:

"In 1954, the up-and-coming Cronkite was asked to move to New York to be host of CBS's "The Morning Show," to answer NBC's "Today Show" success. Some felt he looked awkward in the role and he was soon replaced by Jack Paar. Cronkite then found a more comfortable niche in other programs, serving as narrator and host of such early CBS News staples as "You Are There," "Eyewitness to History" and "The 20th Century." He also anchored and reported for documentaries under the "CBS Reports" banner -- a role he continued throughout his career.

To much fanfare, Cronkite stepped down from his anchor duties on March 6, 1981 to allow Dan Rather to take his place. He became a special correspondent and hosted several acclaimed CBS documentary programs, including the Emmy Award winning "Children of Apartheid" and the CBS News science magazine series "Walter Cronkite's Universe." He also appeared on PBS, most notably as host of the New Year's Eve Vienna Philharmonic Concert, and was a special correspondent for CNN and NPR.

In 1993 he co-founded The Cronkite Ward Co., which has produced more than 40 award?winning documentary hours for The Discovery Channel, PBS and other networks. In 1985, Cronkite was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. He won four Peabody awards for excellence in broadcasting over his career and won virtually every electronic journalism award in existence during his tenure, including the du Pont Columbia, George Polk and Emmy awards. Cronkite twice won the Radio & Television News Directors' Association's highest honor, the Paul White award, a distinction shared by only one other, the late Dr. Frank Stanton, former CBS president"

Cronkite also received the career achievement award from the IDA (International Documentary Association) in 1992.

Comments

[Eric]

He also was a funky drummer...

http://www.humanpoweredtransport.net/hpt/2009/07/walter-cronkite-on-the-ones.html

[Devoirs]

WALTER CRONKITE'S JOURNALISM WAS EXCELLENT.

CRONKITE LEAVES BEHIND A GOOD LEGACY.

CRONKITE POSITIVELY INFLUENCED OTHERS.
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SCANDALS! SCANDALS! SCANDALS!

DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!

GEORGE W. BUSH IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CRIMINAL STALKER AND SERIAL KILLER!

“In her suit, Margie Schoedinger states that George W. Bush committed sexual crimes against her, organized harassment and moral pressure on her, her family members and close relatives and friends. As Schoedinger said, she was strongly recommended to keep her mouth shut. . . . Furthermore, she alleges that George Bush ordered to show pressure on her to the point, when she commits suicide” (go to Google, type “blog of drizzten Margie Schoedinger,” and hit “Enter”).

“George [Bush is personally complicit] in the death (murder to be precise) of my friend Margie Schoedinger in September of 2003. Determining the exact whereabouts and contacts of . . . George Bush on September 21 thru 22, 2003, should be entirely lacking in difficulty” (Leola McConnell—Nevada Progressive Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010).

McConnell is correct: Bush applying pressure (continuously criminally stalking Margie Schoedinger) purposefully to force Schoedinger to commit suicide does in fact constitute murder where it culminated in her death.

Bush’s method of murdering Schoedinger cannot exist in a vacuum: he must have murdered other people in the same way.

During Bush’s presidency, of course Bush would have desired to kill people whom he hated or get them out of his way. Insofar as Bush was clearly capable of murdering Schoedinger—even in “broad daylight”—and is clearly capable of getting away with it, in consideration of common sense and the laws of human nature, Bush of course murdered numerous people in the disgusting way he murdered Schoedinger. One can examine public information; in various situations where people who sought to oppose or disadvantage Bush ever so frighteningly ended up “committing suicide”—specifically—Bush murdered them just like he murdered Schoedinger. For example, Bush murdered James Howard Hatfield by continuously criminally stalking Hatfield to the point that Hatfield could not get away from it—purposefully to force Hatfield to commit suicide—and Hatfield committed suicide in desperation to escape. However, the vast majority of such scandalous cases will never come out (the grisly details are typically hard to substantiate). A prosecutor really can lawfully charge a former president with murdering one or more people in the disgusting way Bush murdered Schoedinger. The American people unfortunately live in a world where evil presidents can murder any number of people—figuratively—with a wave of a magic wand and get away with it.

(There are thousands of copies of the information above on the Internet. Please feel free to go to any major search engine, type “GEORGE W. BUSH IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CRIMINAL STALKER AND SERIAL KILLER” or “George W. Bush continuously criminally stalked Margie Schoedinger to the point that she could not get away from it, and she committed suicide in desperation to escape: he murdered her” or “George W. Bush applying pressure (continuously criminally stalking Margie Schoedinger) purposefully to force Schoedinger to commit suicide does in fact constitute murder where it culminated in her death” or “George W. Bush murdered James Howard Hatfield by continuously criminally stalking Hatfield to the point that Hatfield could not get away from it—purposefully to force Hatfield to commit suicide—and Hatfield committed suicide in desperation to escape,” hit “Enter,” and readily find hundreds of copies.)

(Please feel free to go to Google, type “GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY blog of Andrew Wang,” and hit “Enter.”)
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Andrew Wang
(a.k.a. “THE DISSEMINATING MACHINE”)
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993