Not only was Walter Cronkite a great Anchorman,but he also did a lot of educational film narratives ..Remember when the teacher would bring out the film projector,and show those old black and whites?..
"If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America"..Lyndon Johnson. Has there been any other journalist since Uncle Walter that scared the crap out of a sitting President?
You guys had some really great news readers..WK, Peter Jennings, Connie Chung, Barbara Walter's.. all long standing at their jobs.. WKs Vietnam reports are where I first saw him... peace from the 🇬🇧 Edit: How could I forget Sam Donaldson !
"This is my last broadcast of the CBS Evening News..." News hasn't been the same since that night. R.I.P. "Uncle" Walter. You were a voice of truth and reason in a world full of lies and tumult. A voice we counted on... not necessarily to tell us that things were gonna be okay, but to simply tell us, "and that's the way it is..."
I don’t believe that anybody has ever told the news better than Walter Cronkite. He was the United States’ favorite news anchor and rightly so. In these days of saturation 24 hour news I don’t think anybody from any country can ever surpass him. His delivery on momentous events - The Vietnam War, the murder of John Kennedy, the Martin Luther King murder, the Moon landing, Watergate and so on - was perfect and could and can not be bettered.
After watching #8 in the countdown and realizing that 90% of this video is an announcer telling us what Cronkite said (rather than just playing extended clips from his broadcasts), I stopped watching.
I can get why they did this list the way they did. Not everybody knows who Walter Cronkite was and they used so much time to describe the event and let the clip play.
The most dramatic moment in his career: the JFK Story. He removed his glasses and appeared choked up, composed himself before going on. He soldiered on. You won't see or hear any of that though as it seems Mojo has paid only minor lip service to the number one clip, curtly obscuring this classic bit of drama with some needless voice over.
Mr. Cronkite didn't retire in March 1981 he was literally pushed out by Dan Rather. In the book "Cronkite" by Douglas Brinkley, it was noted that Rather was putting pressure on CBS executives to take over the anchor desk or he was going to leave for another network. Hence Mr. Cronkite's "retirement". Mr. Cronkite said near the end of his life that he never held a grudge against anyone except Dan Rather
Amazing to see how technology has changed. You would never see a new anchor getting breaking news on a telephone. Technology has made huge advances. News broadcasting has done just the opposite.
Back when the news you got was news and not speculation, gossip or one sided. A sad day for us all when he finally retired, a sadder day for America when he passed. A honest reporter, so sad that you can't say that anymore.
ALL collegiate journalism students should be REQUIRED to watch Walter as well other greats of that era, and see you don't have to sell your soul to corporate devils to TELL THE TRUTH!
+Gohul Dhanarasu Walter Cronkite was a traitor, the male version of Hanoi Jane Fonda. After Tet, the North Vietnamese were effectively destroyed, as evidenced by the fact that it took them another seven years to overrun the South, and they were not able to do that until two years after the United States withdrew. It is a lucky thing that the defeatist Traitor Walter was not around during the Second World War, because if he had been, after the Battle of the Bulge, he would have come on the air, wringing his hands, and saying "Oh, my, Hitler is way too strong, and we need to retreat back to London."
Wish we had this integrity in news and reporters back again today. It’s sad to see the complete abdication of duty in this once noble profession. Growing up, there were no “sides”; there was only news.
Andy Duffer You are so right. I used to fly through O'Hare frequently on my trips to and from London. Lots of returning soldiers passed through there on their way home. As they had to be in uniform to fly military standbye they were easy targets for the protesters. I always thought it odd that these people preached peace and love unless you were a soldier or sailor. Most of those poor guys were draftees, they had no say in where they were sent or what they did. I tried to provide a smiling face and a friendly greeting, but I was one voice against a throng of 'peace-loving' hippies screaming hate and abuse at the poor guys.
I grew up in Palmyra about 20 minutes from TMI and I often went fishing at a spot we called "Kings" on the Susquehanna River which happened to be about 1/4 of a mile from TMI and never kept a single fish because of the radioactive activity still lingering in the Susquehanna
Being an early sixties baby, Walter Cronkite was always a part of me and my family from the time I was born , until I graduated from high school..It was so odd when he retired from our lives..RIP, Mr Cronkite..
People now just don't understand how one man defined how news was delivered, and how much respect the general public had for this one news anchor. Cronkite came across like a father figure we all wanted -- he was gruff but understanding. Towards the end of Vietnam is when I truly watched the news first with local news anchor Jim Davis, then Cronkite (ironic situation that an ABC station carried CBS news, but that is how it was back then [just like how NBC news even exists in our area now]), and I'll never forget the names of the dead that scrolled across the screen every night. It brought the gravity of a war far away home. News has never been the same since Cronkite and Morrow are gone. They were journalists first, who became anchors/reporters, but they never forgot how news became news (and it's not the Anderson Cooper stunts).
I am less enamored of Cronkite than I was as a kid, but nobody in TV news ever really replaced his role. The unashamed propaganda spew offered by the MSM today doesn't even pretend to be honest and trustworthy.
Cool fact the actor who played agent smith in the matrix modeled his voice for the films on walter Cronkite so they sounded familiar to people, proper spooky once I knew that ,have a listen its nearly identical:)
Idky but I had this man's name stuck in my head while I was showering. I laughed a bit because I didn't think it was the name of a real person, it sounds like a cartoon characters name.
I think another moment was his decision to show on 10th December 1963 to show a film from England of a young unknown band called The Beatles. It may have been important as the news stories shown there, but proved to be just as culturally significant.
Starting to lose your faith in humanity? Know this: There’s a daylily named after Walter Cronkite. It was released in 2006, three years before his death, so Mr. Cronkite obviously knew about it. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find it anywhere. But I hope to find it soon!
I had the eminence honor of seeing Mr. Cronkite live with Joan Lunden as the interviewer. He told a story about Johnson saying, "If Walter Cronkite doesn't have faith in me, then I've lost my next term" (Or something to that effect)
He was a true American he loves his country and his leader I saw so many news reporter but this man touch my heart when he was crying to tell the news about kennedy assassination his voice was so good Rest in peace True American Walter Cronknite
The ratio of narration to actual audio and video if Cronkite is approximately 180 degrees backwards. The video would have been much better if Cronkite's work was simply allowed to speak for itself.
Honestly, I pulled this up to watch Walter, not to listen to this woman blather. In most cases, he only gets one sentence out. In a couple of instances, not even that.
1980...I was in Paris, walking down the Champs on a Sunday morning and who should be going the other direction...Walter Cronkite. I said "Good Morning, Mr Kronkite" and what did he say to me? This is 100 percent on the level. He said "Fuck you" and kept walking. Walter Cronkite was germ.
Years ago capitalism became capitulated (to cease resisting : acquiesce - to surrender under specified conditions) to corporate demands. The original form of Capitalism was pretty good so long as it flourished freely under Classical Liberalism for all people. One of the last true reporters was Walter Cronkite from CBS (7). When I was growing up, I usually watched ABC (5), NBC (4) or Channel 56 WLVI. Sometimes I would watch TV 38 to catch the Bruins. But mostly I would watch CBS (7) for the news. If you grew up around Massachusetts in the 70's you had a lot of choices for TV. Mornings were dominated by PBS (2).
Without question, the most significant moment in the career on Cronkite was his announcement that the war in Viet Nam could not be won. He reported other events with excellence, but his assessment of Viet nam changed American perception.
The exact opposite of what news is to present.... his "assessment" of Vietnam went beyond what news reporting should do. I dont give a flying f**% about his opinion. Present facts.. only facts. Media putting opinion into your head has lead to the utter disgrace of mainstream media and.., perhaps civilization as a whole.
Thank you for not filling in the black parts with a blurry version of the same image. Thumbs up for that! That fad needs to stop. It's nauseating and ugly.
