Walter Cronkite Died

[HughMoran]

Reported on MSNBC

Edit: looks like I hit enter before others on GD - lol

MSNBC already had a special presentation ready.

RIP Walter :(

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. RIP. He was the newscaster my parents watched when I was a kid

[XOKCowboy]

8. He was the news for most of my life. A true journalist before they became shills.

He believed in true journalism. As he said it was his job to tell people what they NEEDED to know, not what they wanted to hear.

RIP Walter.

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. He was the best

[HughMoran]

21. Agreed

:(

[bdamomma]

20. no brinkley and huntley in our house back then

it was Walter and my father use to repeat what Walter said, And that is the way it is!!! What a great journalist he was. RIP

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. RIP

Thank you Uncle Walter :patriot:

[johnfunk]

3. He dared challenge the Vietnam war. And that's the way it is...

Requiescat in pacem.

[Mrs. Overall]

4. Oh, that's very sad. I grew up watching Walter Cronkite on the evening news--

When my brother was in Vietnam, we would watch his reports to find out what was really going on over there.

[blogslut]

5. We hit at exactly the same time

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6091827&mesg_id=6091827

Still, sad news and worthy of many topic titles. :hi:

[Born_A_Truman]

6. RIP Mr Cronkite

You were one of a kind.

[WolverineDG]

7. Damn & 3 nights away from the 40th anniversary of the moon landing

That's who we were watching that night. Usually, my parents watched NBC, but for important stories, they watched "Uncle Walter."

:cry: :cry: :cry:

dg

[fishbulb703]

9. he had a cool voice n/t

[TahitiNut]

10. My entire generation grew up trusting Uncle Walter. I've missed him ... and now miss him more.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[oxymoron]

11. Know that you have already been missed for decades, Walter.

Goodnight, Walter

[Boomerang Diddle]

12. He was a good man. RIP Mr Cronkite.

[pleah]

13. :(

[pleah]

14. Sorry.

[pdxmom]

15. He was a fascinating man. His death marks the end of an era of

journalism that I fear we won't see again for a very long time.

[Mrs. Overall]

16. This is getting some "unrecs" and that really pisses me off.

The freepers are probably having a party. They wrote vile things about him when news broke a few weeks ago that he was critically ill.

Fuck off, trolls.

[HughMoran]

23. Kinda silly actually

Makes no sense - silly Freepers

[BlooInBloo]

17. RIP Mr. Cronkite. RIP journalism.

[DainBramaged]

18. Another hero of many of us is gone

Will there be heroes for this generation to mourn?

[Jazzgirl]

22. He was the best.

RIP Walter. I will never forget you and the way it was......