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Uncle Walter... [message #57852]

Sat, 18 July 2009 03:57

Senne

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My Hero is Dead
Walter Leland Cronkite 1916-2009
And thats the way it is

Sad

Re: Uncle Walter... [message #57856 is a reply to message #57852]

Sat, 18 July 2009 08:01

CallMePaul

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Registered: April 2007
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I was just a freshman in high school when Walter Cronkite started anchoring the news. He had the face, voice and body language that made you trust what he had to tell you. The man was human, had empathy and often let it show in his broadcasts. I can still remember how hard he tried to control his emotions when he announced that President Kennedy had succumbed to the wounds he received while in that motorcade in Dallas, Texas. If it was okay for uncle Walter to cry then it was okay for me to cry too.

It was a sad day when he retired. Of course it's an even sadder day today. Those of us that grew up with him mourn his loss.

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Re: Uncle Walter... [message #57863 is a reply to message #57852]

Sat, 18 July 2009 13:58

Macky

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I remember staying up all night with Walter, one night in July, watching the first moon landing.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB

Re: Uncle Walter... [message #57864 is a reply to message #57863]

Sat, 18 July 2009 14:30

Senne

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its amazing, and truly sad you will never see another true journalist everyone today is plastic and fake... it disgusts me

What a truly great shame [message #57865 is a reply to message #57864]

Sat, 18 July 2009 16:16

timmy

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How truly sad that you have not seen any today. They abound. Whether they abound on US television I have no idea, but there are thousands of good journalists in the same way that there are thousands of poor journalists.

Plastic? Yes there are doubtless some plastic media icons who deserve to be brought crashing down. And there are good ones ready to take their place.

Perhaps on television you should look at the public service broadcasting channels where advert revenue is secondary to journalism.

Perhaps you shoudl look at the relatively anonymous journalism team who have just rocked the UK Parliament to its core by revealing the huge expenses scandal we had here. Perhaps you shoudl look at a current war correspondent trying to get away from the right wing puffery in Afghanistan, or those who exposed that awful camp where Bush placed alleged terrorists to be tortured.

Perhaps you will change your views once you open your eyes.

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: What a truly great shame [message #57872 is a reply to message #57865]

Sat, 18 July 2009 18:32

Senne

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most of those are not american news services...
I was referring to the American News Experience... Not Yours,

Re: What a truly great shame [message #57883 is a reply to message #57872]

Sat, 18 July 2009 21:56

timmy

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Jordan wrote:
> most of those are not american news services...
> I was referring to the American News Experience... Not Yours,

I mentioned: "Perhaps you shoudl look at the relatively anonymous journalism team who have just rocked the UK Parliament to its core by revealing the huge expenses scandal we had here. Perhaps you shoudl look at a current war correspondent trying to get away from the right wing puffery in Afghanistan, or those who exposed that awful camp where Bush placed alleged terrorists to be tortured."

Your definition of "most" also requires that you open your eyes. The UK Expenses scandal was to sole non US reference. Two out of three is "most" in anyone's book. The US nature is not diluted by the fact that other people also have journalists there.

And perhaps your posts should state when they are US Only.

I can tell you that you have pissed one US journalist off mightily. He wrote to me and explained what he thought of your comment.

[Updated on: Sat, 18 July 2009 21:56]

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

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