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Walter Cronkite Died
« on: July 17, 2009, 09:20:20 pm »
At the age of 92 today.
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Re: Walter Cronkite Died
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2009, 09:24:11 pm »
Oh man. We need to find some connection between Walter Cronkite, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Billy Mays.

Finally found some footage that didn't involve Walter Cronkite announcing somebody's assassination:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwaA-hbvYF8
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Re: Walter Cronkite Died
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2009, 09:41:29 pm »
I just found out about this myself. He was the paragon of objective, hard news on television. He set a standard to which I hope we will aspire again someday, because today's news doesn't even begin to come close. Y'all have no clue...
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Re: Walter Cronkite Died
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2009, 09:44:31 pm »
Has this been confirmed by any major news sources? I know that some were warning that his deteriorating health was being exaggerated, and that he was still alive.

And on the sad possibility that this is true, we lost a great one.
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Re: Walter Cronkite Died
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2009, 09:47:50 pm »
Saw it on FoxNews about 30 minutes ago, Mav.
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Re: Walter Cronkite Died
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2009, 10:07:26 pm »
Oh boy, so weird...
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Re: Walter Cronkite Died
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2009, 10:09:57 pm »
Ah. I just read it on msnbc too. I plan to go into broadcasting myself, and I honestly look to him as a man who's decisions I wouldn't mind emulating.
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Re: Walter Cronkite Died
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2009, 10:10:30 pm »
Ah, yet again death reaches beyond what we see as possible, and strikes us unexpectedly.

But at least he lived long, and actually lived.
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Re: Walter Cronkite Died
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2009, 10:38:49 pm »
This hits me more than MJ did. A LOT more, and I'm 21. I never saw him on the CBS Evening News, but I understand what Walter Cronkite did for journalism today.

His words could literally shake the world. It was his condemnation of the Vietnam War that pushed LBJ out of office.

Also, this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CjWbemTNcw&feature=related

(go to 5:00)
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Re: Walter Cronkite Died
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2009, 11:18:48 pm »
Yeah, just saw the anecdote about his impact on the Vietnam War on CNN. That's amazing.
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