"and that's the way it is"

Uncle Walter "and that's the way it is"


From:http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/20/walter_cronkite_1916_2009_legendary_cbs

"The legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite died at the age of ninety-two at his home in New York on Friday. For nearly twenty years, Cronkite’s broadcast was a nightly staple in millions of American homes from 1962 until he left CBS Evening News in 1981. Praise for Cronkite’s work and legacy is all over the news, but few in the mainstream media have mentioned what many consider Cronkite’s most important news moment. In February 1968, soon after he returned from a trip to Vietnam, Cronkite cast doubt on the war and helped turn the tide of American public opinion against it. [includes rush transcript]"

Recommend reading A Reporter's Life by Walter Cronkite

Am up to page 89

Funny, Honest, Serious & Wise. For me it is worth savoring slowly. Picked it up over a month ago, Wondered when I bought the book if Cronkite was alive. It would be a few weeks later. that I would learn that he was ill with cerebrovascular disease

Now he's gone.

Hopefully there will be others in the Journalism who will demand of themselves the same critical demands they apply to others however, these aspirations are just as categorically imperative, for being human.

Reflect

Forethink

Myself

as well

Peter Lott Heppner

P.S. from PBS.org