R.I.P., Uncle Walter

[yendi]

Walter Cronkite has died. There never was another like him, and there never will be.

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[modpixie.livejournal.com]

Maybe he can finally get that interview with Charles Schulz.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

(Not being facetious, BTW. He wrote the introduction to a Peanuts compilation we had about his attempts at interviewing Schulz.)

[dydan.livejournal.com]

Awww...poor Walter. I had heard he was not doing well. I hope I live as long as he did!

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

oh damn.

[mycroftca.livejournal.com]

Major sadness.

I would think that the hoopla over Cronkite's death should outshout that over Michael Jackson, but you know it won't.

[yndy.livejournal.com]

The news voices of my childhood are truly stilled now... Cronkite followed other voices I heard in my head - Charles Kuralt was my Sunday morning growing up, Tim Russert that of my adulthood... Sam Donaldson, Harry Reasoner, Mike Wallace...

But Walter Cronkite? He was the voice that got me to trust "newsmen" - not just talking heads or pretty anchors reading teleprompters. He was a reporter with integrity and intelligence.

May he rest in peace.