Walter Cronkite (1916-2009)

Democracy Now by Robert Parry, Danny Schechter, AMY GOODMAN | Jul. 20, 2009 (News Analysis)
Legendary CBS Anchorman Was Critical of Media Consolidation, Wars in Vietnam and Iraq

(Video) Praise for Cronkite’s work and legacy is all over the news, but few in the mainstream media have mentioned what many consider Cronkite’s most important news moment. In February 1968, soon after he returned from a trip to Vietnam, Cronkite cast doubt on the war and helped turn the tide of American public opinion against it. Full Story »

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Glenn LaBauve
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 by Glenn LaBauve - Jul. 21, 2009

Here's to the hope that this will not be remembered as the day the news died.

Of the recent celebrity deaths,Cronkite's life probably affected the world in more meaningful ways than any other,

The Vietcong did not win by a knockout [in the Tet Offensive], but neither did we. The referees of history may make it a draw. . . . We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds. . . . For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. . . . To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past" — Walter Cronkite, CBS Evening News, February 27, 1968.

I would make an exception for Uncle Walt and that’s the way it is.

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