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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on June 28, 2009, 09:11:30 AM
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Washington - Legendary TV news anchor Walter Cronkite is suffering from a cerebrovascular disease and is not expected to recover, his family said.
'Sadly, he is very ill and is not expected to recuperate,' his family said Thursday in an email to the New York Post. 'He is resting at home surrounded by family, friends and a wonderful medical team. We thank everyone for their prayers and good wishes. ...
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1486174.php/Legendary_US_journalist_Walter_Cronkite_ill_unlikely_to_recover_#ixzz0JjZJ7FUK&D
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A great newsman and voice of America, even if he was a liberal.
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A great newsman and voice of America, even if he was a liberal.
In his time he was probably one of the only American journalists people outside the US had heard of.
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Not to poke fun at Cronkite, but doesn't it seem odd that this past week has been harsh on celebrities??
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Not to poke fun at Cronkite, but doesn't it seem odd that this past week has been harsh on celebrities??
Ed McMahon; Farrah Fawcett; Michael Jackson; Billy Mays ... not a week to be famous. :(
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For at least a good portion of his career, the network TV news was only a fifteen-minute program. I cannot recall when it went to a half-hour, but the only times Cronkite was on the air for more than a few minutes at a time were during space missions and a few special events like the Kennedy assassinations. He played a key role in sabotaging our nation's sacrifices in Viet Nam, and is "respected" only by comparison with his deranged successor. The other celebutards who died this week at least did no damage.
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Ed McMahon; Farrah Fawcett; Michael Jackson; Billy Mays ... not a week to be famous. :(
Actress Gale Storm also passed away. I have no idea who she is except that Gary Shandling always said that his monogrammed bathrobe belonged to her.
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For at least a good portion of his career, the network TV news was only a fifteen-minute program. I cannot recall when it went to a half-hour, but the only times Cronkite was on the air for more than a few minutes at a time were during space missions and a few special events like the Kennedy assassinations. He played a key role in sabotaging our nation's sacrifices in Viet Nam, and is "respected" only by comparison with his deranged successor. The other celebutards who died this week at least did no damage.
Unfortunately, journalism abounds with liberalism. Journalism stoodents get a steady diet of liberalism with each class and before you know it, they're expressing opinions rather than simply reporting the news.
There are a few exceptions here and there, but by and large, journalists are libs.
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Actress Gale Storm also passed away. I have no idea who she is except that Gary Shandling always said that his monogrammed bathrobe belonged to her.
This is the first I heard of her passing.
It truly has been a rough month for celebs. Some will be missed while others, well ......................
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529415,00.html?test=latestnews
Here's another celeb who just died.
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For at least a good portion of his career, the network TV news was only a fifteen-minute program. I cannot recall when it went to a half-hour, but the only times Cronkite was on the air for more than a few minutes at a time were during space missions and a few special events like the Kennedy assassinations.
According to old newsmagazines, the switch to half-hour broadcasts took place right after the assassination of Kennedy in November 1963. There had been plans to do so before the assassination, but the assassination hastened the move.
He played a key role in sabotaging our nation's sacrifices in Viet Nam.
Yes.
That is why I could not possibly care less about the destiny of Walter Cronkite; one wonders how much blood is on his hands because he wilfully and purposely lied about the war in Vietnam, misleading the American public.
Among his lies were that most Americans wished us to desert Vietnam, a lie fortified by broadcasts giving undue coverage to the "anti"-"war" side, and hardly any to the other side.
But such perception omits that many "anti"-"war" political candidates were defeated in 1968, among them the superdoves Wayne Morse (D-Oregon) and Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska).....and that as late as 1971, less than 25% of the American public wanted us to cut and run from Vietnam.
Walter Cronkite has lived a long life, his declining years in untold affluence and comfort; one thinks often of the young who died needlessly in Vietnam because of his lies.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529415,00.html?test=latestnews
Here's another celeb who just died.
I remember him on The Johnny Carson show.....I think doing that show was what really got him started.
Actress Gale Storm also passed away. I have no idea who she is except that Gary Shandling always said that his monogrammed bathrobe belonged to her.
She was on tv alot when I was little....middle of the last century.... :thatsright:
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I thought this dude was dead already.