The Most Trusted Man in America, Walter Cronkite passed away today at the age of 92. For those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 60s, television news was an entirely different industry. Walter Cronkite was an icon in his field reporting with an integrity and objectivity that we do not see today. It was news, facts that streamed through our television sets in those days, allowing us to form our own opinions without the divisiveness of the infotainment characters that appear before us today.
At one time it was a noble profession. Anchors like Cronkite were honest brokers of information through some tumultuous times with very few editorial moments. In Cronkite's case, I distinctly remember his understandably emotional moment while announcing JFK's death, quickly regaining his composure so he could continue to report the facts to the public. He told us what we needed to know.
The American people welcomed Walter Cronkite into their homes every evening. Today, he was welcomed into his heavenly home. Rest in peace good man.
And that's the way it is, July 17, 2009.
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