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R.I.P. Walter Crokite

:Oh crap
A true pioneer and Legend in American Journalism. He will be missed. some great quotes

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
Walter Cronkite

And that's the way it is.
Walter Cronkite

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
Walter Cronkite

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
Walter Cronkite

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Walter Cronkite

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
Walter Cronkite

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.
Walter Cronkite

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
Walter Cronkite

I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
Walter Cronkite

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Walter Cronkite

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
Walter Cronkite

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
Walter Cronkite

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
Walter Cronkite

The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
Walter Cronkite

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Walter Cronkite

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
Walter Cronkite

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
Walter Cronkite

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.
Walter Cronkite

sup man! you coming to Miami..?

May he rest in peace...

Alhough I'm Australian, he was known the world over. Rip Walter!

Brilliant guy. RIP Walter!

Now that sucks. I was just thinking about him last week. Talk about trusted. There was no one news anchor that meant more than Walter Cronkite. When he said we were fucked in Nam, things changed in Nam.

Quote:

Tonight, back in more familiar surroundings in New York, we'd like to sum up our findings in Vietnam, an analysis that must be speculative, personal, subjective. Who won and who lost in the great Tet offensive against the cities? I'm not sure. The Vietcong did not win by a knockout, but neither did we. The referees of history may make it a draw. Another standoff may be coming in the big battles expected south of the Demilitarized Zone. Khesanh could well fall, with a terrible loss in American lives, prestige and morale, and this is a tragedy of our stubbornness there; but the bastion no longer is a key to the rest of the northern regions, and it is doubtful that the American forces can be defeated across the breadth of the DMZ with any substantial loss of ground. Another standoff. On the political front, past performance gives no confidence that the Vietnamese government can cope with its problems, now compounded by the attack on the cities. It may not fall, it may hold on, but it probably won't show the dynamic qualities demanded of this young nation. Another standoff.

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. They may be right, that Hanoi's winter-spring offensive has been forced by the Communist realization that they could not win the longer war of attrition, and that the Communists hope that any success in the offensive will improve their position for eventual negotiations. It would improve their position, and it would also require our realization, that we should have had all along, that any negotiations must be that -- negotiations, not the dictation of peace terms. For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. This summer's almost certain standoff will either end in real give-and-take negotiations or terrible escalation; and for every means we have to escalate, the enemy can match us, and that applies to invasion of the North, the use of nuclear weapons, or the mere commitment of one hundred, or two hundred, or three hundred thousand more American troops to the battle. And with each escalation, the world comes closer to the brink of cosmic disaster.

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. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. On the off chance that military and political analysts are right, in the next few months we must test the enemy's intentions, in case this is indeed his last big gasp before negotiations. But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

This is Walter Cronkite. Good night.

Those words changed everything.

We are now officially in the shameful era of Geraldo Rivera and Jillian Barberie

I remember watching him on TV as a kid

All the big celebs are dying. What's up with that?

The passing of Walter Cronkite is truly the end of a media era.

I grew up listening to his news reports over the decades - he was a beloved and respected icon in the industry. When Walter spoke...people listened.

RIP Walter.

Sorry Walter about the spelling mistake.had surgery yesterday

Quote:

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
Walter Cronkite

Too bad so many of today's so-called "news sources" completely ignore that point.

Ohhh Walter you're going to be missed.

R.I.P.