BloggerRadio.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
McCain and Brokaw suck. Brokaw is no Walter Cronkite, that’s fur-sure. It’s that simple. Try as they might, the tag-team of Brokaw-McCain could not tarnish ‘THAT ONE’. I decided long ago that I will be voting for ‘THAT ONE’. And, these staged, hokey, so-called debates have been...
Five Live Breakfast (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
25 years ago, the BBC drafted a statement to be broadcast in the event of nuclear attack. We asked Harry Shearer , the voice of The Simpsons' newsreader Kent Brockman, to offer us his interpretation of the statement. So he did it in the style of seminal 1970s newscaster Walter Cronkite ... and here's the result.
Dictionopolis in Digitopolis (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
One, I like Barbara Boxer... And two, Sarah Palin makes Katie Couric look like Walter Cronkite .
Evergreen Politics (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
We may just have seen the "Walter Cronkite" moment when Cronkite said he thought the Vietnam War was unwinnable and President Johnson reportedly said "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost America." Devastating video of Dave Letterman commenting on McCain's blowing off the show scheduled for tonight with Letterman. Three minutes of Letterman talking about how much of a hero John McCain was during his years...
Babalu Blog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Folks, you really have to read this opinion piece by New York Times columnist Frank Rich, who is quoted all the time by the lobotomous left as some kind of genius spokesman for their cause. Here's the salient paragraph from...
Religion News Blog (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
We've managed to gather L. Ron Hubbard, Patty Hearst, Jimmy Hendrix and Jesus OneTouch on one page. If you look closely you'll even see Walter Cronkite. We'll tell you where the Virgin Mary is, give you today's religion number, and took a look at the books in your hotel room's nightstand.
What It Is Today (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Once upon a time, people trusted the Media, and by Media I mean the News. Heck, who couldn’t trust Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, even Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell. OK, I suppose Sinclair and Tarbell did tick off a whole lot of the real elite (and were pilloried as “left-wing” by that elite [...]
Steven Rubio's Online Life (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Craig Ferguson was ... well, I wouldn't say better than ever, he's usually good ... but last night he was, shall we say, more pointed than usual. As Aaron Barnhart pointed out, Ferguson was his usual routinely hilarious self, but...
Rightwing Nuthouse (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
The ghosts of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley can rest easy now. The two NBC news icons who for years consistently topped CBS and Walter Cronkite in the ratings and set a standard for political coverage unmatched since, no doubt would have been flabbergasted at the idea of a former sportscaster and unabashed liberal screamer being [...]
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
The John F. Kennedy legacy came up repeatedly during the Democratic National Convention. But today, would JFK even be a Democrat? Kennedy supported, in today's lexicon, a George W. Bush-like "belligerent" approach to fighting the Cold War, and told CBS' Walter Cronkite it would be "a great mistake" to withdraw the American presence from Vietnam. In his 1961 inaugural speech, Kennedy said, "Let every...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Walter Cronkite, who presided over television's first half-hour-long newscast when the CBS Evening News expanded from 15 minutes 45 years ago today (Wednesday), would like to ...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
TVNewser: Walter Cronkite: Cable Won't "Ever Replace The Networks' Evening Newscasts" FishbowlNY: New York Doesn't Care What You're Wearing FishbowlDC: A Ross Raid FishbowlLA: VO Legend Don LaFontaine Dead at 68 PRNewser: BusinessWeek : "If You Serve the Press First, Then You Also Serve the Client" GalleyCat: Mercantile Center Announces 2008 First Novel Shortlist UnBeige: Cuddle Up with Karl Lagerfeld...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Forty-five years ago today, the CBS Evening News became the first half-hour weeknight network newscast, expanding from a 15-minute format. It was a change Walter Cronkite "was very much in favor of," he tells TVNewser. "It was clear to me then, as it is now, that more time was needed to cover the news of the world. CBS was the first network to extend the broadcast and I was thrilled." In fact, Cronkite...
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Edited by A. Constantine Veteran CBS correspondent and producer Ike Pappas worked closely with Walter Cronkite, a military intelligence asset recalled from Russia to take the job of anchor "Mockingbird" at CBS under Lawrence Tisch, a recruit to the cold war propaganda program assembled by the CIA's Allen Dulles. Pappas himself fits the Agency's perception management profile: • Pappas covered the murder...
Georgia Newsroom (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
More “heartbeat away” news. Did all of journalism pass away with Walter Cronkite? Here’s the latest roundup from the MSM … “She’s not ready to be a heartbeat away from the presidency,” said Alaska state Rep. Beth Kerttula, a Democrat. Obama’s campaign rushed out a “heartbeat … But I can’t believe that McCain truly thinks Palin is the [...]
