Comments on: Walter Cronkite Dies

Television Pioneer, CBS Legend, Passes Away in New York at 92

[proudmilvet]

Perceptions 5, are you going to tell us now that Fox(Faux)News doesn't always present the RNC propaganda or ONLY the opinions of your "Dear Leader" Limbaugh? Fair & Balanced my A##!!

[mtwdo]

Thank You, uncle Walter. You were truly a journalist. The next generation will never know honest, objective, unfiltered, unspun news. I wish for the old days when the news was reported and Americans were left to form their own opinions!

[robo1415]

Enough already!Walter Cronkite had his negatives as well as his positives...the man spouted some silly anti-Catholic and anti-freedom views as well some things good....Do you honestly think a conservative who had said the same things about say,someone Jewish,Gay or black would still have as many accolades?

[pozjetsfan]

America has lost it's public voice of the last three generations. It is a loss of staggering proportions. Journalism in america has died......and thats the way it is........have a great flight Mr. Cronkite.

[geeeberry]

Walter, Great man, THE LAST HONEST PERSON THAT C BS HIRED

[scubbasteve01]

Walter Cronkite
1916-2009

?? And that?s the way it is?.? Walter Cronkite used to say on TV across America for many generations from 1950 to the 1980?s long before cable TV and 24 hrs News Shows and 200 cable channels from black and white images to living color. Who became the most trusted man in America. A true TV legend, a news pioneer. He proved that television journalism could be great if it?s in the hands of the right person. Who worked for years as an anchor and managing editor of the ? CBS Evening News??.
Walter Cronkite was the CBS Evening News. He was able to personify his grand presence into every decade and was able to be as big as the stories that he covered.
Because he was that great without flinching a muscle. From the UP covering the troops rushing the beaches on the D-Day Invasion to the Nuremburg trials, to a sportscaster guy, to the CBS Studios in the 1950?s, from Pick The Winner, to the Morning Show, to the Farmer?s Almanac on the Morning Show, to the Olympics in the 1960?s, to Scott Carpenter orbiting the great blue planet in 1962 in the Aurora 7 spacecraft, to the CBS Evening News on Nov.22, 1963, to announcing to the world that President John F. Kennedy had just been shot, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and covering the Vietnam War to Watergate.
To holding up a copy of the Daily News to show America: Man Has landed On the Moon on July 20, 1969. ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN.
ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND.
This was the career of Walter Cronkite. From interviews with President Truman, President John F. Kennedy, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Astronaut John Glenn,
President Richard M. Nixon, President Lyndon B. Johnson, First Lady Bird Johnson,
President Jimmy Carter, Senator Ted Kennedy to Sadat, Castro to covering his last election in 1980 when Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter and began his 8 year reign as one of the greatest Presidents Of All Time.
March 6, 1981 was Cronkite?s last day as the anchor Of the CBS Evening News.
You could always have somebody sit in his chair. But you can truly never replace somebody that great. Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr was born in St. Joseph, Mo. on Nov 4, 1916. The clouds opened up on that day and the stork delivered a gift for the ages.
He learned his ABC?s so he could say CBS.
Mr. Pioneer: The Eagle Has Landed.
Walter Cronkite. A true American Icon. A Legend. Yes, Mr. Cronkite YOU ARE THERE!
You are an Eyewitness to History and the Twentieth Century.
If you wanted to be a newsman or newswoman. Who was a better role model than him? He never let his commentary take over the story but with his analysis and commentary. He had content and character.
THAT?S THE WAY IT IS! Mr. Walter Cronkite and That?s They Way It Was.
Rest IN Peace.

[ekucrew]

What a cool story on the CBS tribute special last night. Cronkite at a Grateful Dead show at MSG? Some radio station should play "Touch of Grey" and dedicate it to Cronkite!

He was part of a news frat that will never exist again in the media.. Murrow, Huntley, Brinkley, etc. Reporting INSTEAD of getting opinionated!

[toldyouso29]

I WAS SHOCKED TO LEARN WC HAD DIED. I could have sworn he died a couple of years ago...

[joe11144]

All of the superlatives have been used. He was a rare man; a bastion of honor in a sometimes less than honorable world. I have not been so sad at the loss of an icon since the assassination of JFK. It is remarkable that CBS opted not to donate the single hour of prime time as a tribute, choosing instead to sell commercial advertising. As further example of the differences in men. Walter would have understood. I do not. Godspeed, Uncle Walter.

[ladytinarglenn]

And for the record, I am not one to call names, but the entire cast of "The Early Show" can go! It is a morning circus! Katie Couric is a little better but I just don't watch her -- I'm very discouraged with the news. Everything in society has changed and dignity is no longer the order of the day. I hope CBS not only makes a platform for us to leave messages but that they read them and see that we are all unhappy with the lackluster quality that they give us. If I wanted to watch Entertainment Tonight, I would, but I don't so why should I have to see that quality on Nightly News on morning news shows. I get my news the best way I can but I will not subject myself to what I see today. I just miss yesterday...I miss Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley and the others. They didn't depend on sensationalism to get people to listen...they just told the truth. I can't say the same today. Truly a sad day!