It's fascinating to me that all the networks are, it seems, continuously beating their breasts about the passing of a 92-year-old icon. He is featured on ALL news programs, all the time.
Cronkite was, for the most part, good. What's supremely ironic about this nonstop mourning is that I'm sure Cronkite himself would hate it and insist that the media report on actual NEWS, maybe after a brief mention of his passing.
Particularly egregious are the eulogys of the current crop of "anchors," who are as far from being "journalists" as it is possible to be: pretty vacuous faces who are little more than stenographers (see Glenn Greenwald) and whores for Beltway conventional wisdom.
Late in his life Cronkite bemoaned what he saw happening to journalism. How interesting it is to watch the practitioners of the "new 'journalism'" act like their status is even in the same universe as his was.
One of the current crop of network fools mentioned, yesterday, that "Cronkite cashed in his one non-objective chip when he came out against the Vietnam War." At least he believed he HAD a chip. Where were these anchors when we went to war in Iraq? -
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