Comments on: Updated: Cronkite Dies; News Croaked Long Ago

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:38:20 +0000

If you want to see what old reporting was like, just rent “Apollo 13.” You’ll see many examples, including at the beginning, when Cronkite is covering the first steps of Neil Armstrong on the Moon. He shut up and let the camera and the astronaut record an event that even today fills me with awe.

Can you imagine if we’d landed on the Moon for the first time today? We wouldn’t be able to appreciate the importance of the event; instead we’d be “treated” to Anderson Cooper sobbing like a schoolgirl.

By: Joel Harrell

Joel Harrell — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:29:24 +0000

Cronkite was a jerk. His garbage about the Tet Offensive helped turn the “sheeple” against our troops in Vietnam. I thought the war sucked, but I sure was not going to support any criticism of our fighting men and women.

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:30:45 +0000

Fox News used to proclaim: We report. You decide.

It should be: We distort. We decide.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:24:07 +0000

Cronkite and the mainstream had their biases and they hobnobbed with the mainstream liberals – but they at least had a sense of ethical standards that the current generation of scandalmongering bloviators lack.

By: Bob Harrison

Bob Harrison — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:02:30 +0000

While we don’t (yet) have a Ministry of Thought, its hard not to notice the controlled and packaged qualities of TV and especially cable news. While Foxnews berates CNN and the rest as being “liberal” they ALL line up to jointly bash Ron Paul and his supporters as “nutjobs.” They all supported George Bush the Lesser’s misbegotten invasion of Iraq, they all joined in the chicken little hysteria over the “abyss” we faced if we didn’t pass TARP. The internet is the only way the people can discover reality!