Walter Cronkite was the last newsman everyone trusted in the same way that the Beatles were the last music everyone loved and Marilyn was the last star everyone concurred was worthy of the word.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everybody trusted Cronkite because he reminded them of their favorite uncle or trusted family physician. Being square in the age of the Beatles made Cronkite retro cool.
Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.
The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.
With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.
Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.
Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.