Dinner With Walter Cronkite
July 17, 2009 at 12:26 PM Leave a comment
Walter Cronkite died today at the age of 92.
Cronkite was a much a part of my childhood as Michael Jackson was of others’. My family gathered around the television every night at dinnertime and watched the “CBS Evening News,” which was then actual news. Walter always signed off with, “And that’s the way it is…” after which he gave the date.
He seemed like a wonderful, kind man with tremendous integrity and again, he was a journalist and he reported the news. Back then, for the most part, news meant facts, not opinion. Undoubtedly he left this Earth distressed at the state of that institution.
RIP Walter. I’m glad I know what a real “news anchor” is. I hope the history books include your story so young people will have a sense of what we’ve lost.
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