cavanami Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_walter_cronkite NEW YORK – Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the golden age of the U.S. networks who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died Friday. He was 92... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Walter Cronkite ... I'd didn't realise he was still alive. He was a good one. (Dutch family name that got "Americanised".) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadaBing Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 he was america's designated scorekeeper for the VN war on the evening news. I did find it strange that each day no americans got killed , and the VC were getting killed by the hundreds. walley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Crankcase was definitely anti-war. The Tet offensive was a major communist disaster, but the news reports played it up as an American defeat. (The VC were decimated and the NVA were not able to stage a major offensive for years afterwards.) p.s. I had a friend who was a battalion commander in RVN. He told me he was at an official briefing one day and heard the Army release the latest casualty figures for both sides. He'd already seen the official figures, and his jaw dropped when he heard what the Army spokesman was saying. The US figures had been reduced and the Red figures increased. That was part of Westmoreland's "body count" fixation. Westie never believed in letting the truth get in the way of what he wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 The only time he appeared to get upset about a story was when he reported the death of JFK... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 For a different take on Cronkite, a professor of mine was 13 years old and living in Hamburg during WWII. He couldn't stand listening to Cronkite, because of all his propaganda during the war. Cronkite kept reporting the Allies were bombing rail lines when the truth was they were fire bombing the city of Hamburg trying to start a firestorm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 If you rate the great newsmen that worked for CBS, I'd put Edward R. Murrow first and Cronkite second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeTime Posted July 19, 2009 Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 Murrow and Cronkite, both journalistic legends: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 19, 2009 Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 For a different take on Cronkite, a professor of mine was 13 years old and living in Hamburg during WWII. He couldn't stand listening to Cronkite, because of all his propaganda during the war. Cronkite kept reporting the Allies were bombing rail lines when the truth was they were fire bombing the city of Hamburg trying to start a firestorm! As I understand it, The USAAF usually flew daylight raids against rail lines and other military targets. The RAF often flew safer night time raids that targeted the civilians who worked in factories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted July 19, 2009 Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 Crankcase was definitely anti-war. The Tet offensive was a major communist disaster, but the news reports played it up as an American defeat. (The VC were decimated and the NVA were not able to stage a major offensive for years afterwards.) p.s. I had a friend who was a battalion commander in RVN. He told me he was at an official briefing one day and heard the Army release the latest casualty figures for both sides. He'd already seen the official figures, and his jaw dropped when he heard what the Army spokesman was saying. The US figures had been reduced and the Red figures increased. That was part of Westmoreland's "body count" fixation. Westie never believed in letting the truth get in the way of what he wanted. Didn't Westmoreland count women, children and old men in his body counts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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