Friday, July 17, 2009

Walter Cronkite, Dead at 92


The veteran CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite has died, age 92. The iconic newsman's death was announced by his son. Cronkite had been seriously ill for the past month.


During the Bush years, Cronkite emerged from retirement to regularly lambaste America's right-wing, "lap dog" journalism that regurgitated every government lie and turned its head at the first sign of truth. That made him a target of the worst and slimiest in American broadcast journalism - the barrel bottom scrapings like Limbaugh and the FOX News crew.

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  2. Caught the news on msnbc tonight,...

    Walter Cronkite said it best, in order to be a good reporter you have to be liberal,... which is why the far rightwingers hated him, why they hate pbs and the other true investigative news shows,...

    The world just became smaller and less interesting tonight.

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