Comments on: Walter Cronkite On The Media—And The MediaChannel http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/ As The Media Watches The World, We Watch The Media Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:47:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Richard O'Donnell http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-17706 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:48:49 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-17706 An Invitational Link: http://www.gather.com/viewArticles.jsp?memberId=206786&nav=Namespace An Invitational Link:

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]]> by: marzig http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-17203 Tue, 27 May 2008 22:29:14 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-17203 I remember studying in History Class something about the Country being kept together by a reasonable 1/3rd of the people. How about the major networks taking a chance on us reasonable/sane 1/3 by bringing back real news men like Walter Cronkite, David Brinkely etc. (Brian Williams has potential) ....They gave you the straight facts and no opinion, unlike news shows like Today who are at times down right telling us how we should think. Shame on you matt laur. You used to be a serious newsy when you started. Now just a glamour puss talking head! I remember studying in History Class something about the Country being kept together by a reasonable 1/3rd of the people. How about the major networks taking a chance on us reasonable/sane 1/3 by bringing back real news men like Walter Cronkite, David Brinkely etc. (Brian Williams has potential) ….They gave you the straight facts and no opinion, unlike news shows like Today who are at times down right telling us how we should think. Shame on you matt laur. You used to be a serious newsy when you started. Now just a glamour puss talking head!

]]> by: kayjay http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-14326 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:20:59 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-14326 It is truly sad that there are no more reliable sources of news in America today since Cronkite retired. One is more likely to get an accurate picture of the US from watching the BBC. I recall being an elementary school child in the Vietnam war era and begging my parents to stay up to watch the news. These days, young adults get their news exclusively from the parodies and comedy of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. What is even more distressing, is that instead of broadcast news setting the record straight, they resort to the same tactics of dumbing down and clowning. Print and radio are no better. We have become a nation of non-realistic reality show participants. And this whole presidential campaign has turned into a 7th grade popularity contest. I don't care who can bowl, how one wears his or her hair and I certainly couldn't care less which candidate people are more likely to want to have a beer with. I want to know who is going to fix the economy and get our sons and daughters back home. It is truly sad that there are no more reliable sources of news in America today since Cronkite retired. One is more likely to get an accurate picture of the US from watching the BBC. I recall being an elementary school child in the Vietnam war era and begging my parents to stay up to watch the news. These days, young adults get their news exclusively from the parodies and comedy of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. What is even more distressing, is that instead of broadcast news setting the record straight, they resort to the same tactics of dumbing down and clowning. Print and radio are no better. We have become a nation of non-realistic reality show participants. And this whole presidential campaign has turned into a 7th grade popularity contest. I don’t care who can bowl, how one wears his or her hair and I certainly couldn’t care less which candidate people are more likely to want to have a beer with. I want to know who is going to fix the economy and get our sons and daughters back home.

]]> by: Greg Peters http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-12655 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:29:13 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-12655 How can big media (BM) tell the people what they need to know about big business (BB) when BB owns BM? My profound thanks to those who have created Media Channel. My profound thanks to Mr Cronkite for speaking truth to power. Democracies cannot work without an informed citizenry. That's why the US is in such bad shape in so many ways. Hopefully, the great economic crisis we are going through will wake people up enough to do something about the insidious corporate control of America and the world. How can big media (BM) tell the people what they need to know about big business (BB) when BB owns BM? My profound thanks to those who have created Media Channel. My profound thanks to Mr Cronkite for speaking truth to power. Democracies cannot work without an informed citizenry. That’s why the US is in such bad shape in so many ways. Hopefully, the great economic crisis we are going through will wake people up enough to do something about the insidious corporate control of America and the world.

]]> by: J. L. Stodgel http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-12086 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:13:52 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-12086 Mr Cronkite: How I wish that you could come out of retirement!! I trusted your reporting of the events of the day. Now, you can tell that all of them are simply reporting what they are told to report. Damned what the people want to hear. So again thank your for being forthright about Media Channel and THANK YOU Danny and all of your staff, if you have one. I look to your site for what is really going on in this topsy turvy world. Mr Cronkite: How I wish that you could come out of retirement!! I trusted your reporting of the events of the day. Now, you can tell that all of them are simply reporting what they are told to report. Damned what the people want to hear. So again thank your for being forthright about Media Channel and THANK YOU Danny and all of your staff, if you have one. I look to your site for what is really going on in this topsy turvy world.

]]> by: Jah Red http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-12032 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:31:56 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-12032 Walter you are a traitor to the USA in that you want a global government to rule the world. http://youtube.com/watch?v=heegk07026I Walter you are a traitor to the USA in that you want a global government to rule the world.

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]]> by: Tim http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-11188 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:47:37 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-11188 May the uncensored exchange of ideas on the Internet continue to be the antidote to the mind numbing blather of cable and network television news. Walter Cronkite is an icon of the days when fairness and thoroughness were the hallmark of the medium. May the uncensored exchange of ideas on the Internet continue to be the antidote to the mind numbing blather of cable and network television news. Walter Cronkite is an icon of the days when fairness and thoroughness were the hallmark of the medium.

]]> by: Vernon Clayson http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-11063 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:58:44 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-11063 Only those craving a return to the old days care what Walter Cronkite says. Eons ago he filled a need for the BS we thought we needed at the time. If you want to catch a semblance of Cronkite's act check out Bob Schieffer, his dour and tired persona changes, but only slightly, when he praises Bill Clintons or criticizes George Bush, I know one of these days he will blurt out, "I love you, Bill.", and when Bush completes his term, he, Schieffer, will announce, "America's long nighmare is over, thank God that I have lived to see this day." Why does CBS feel the need to have newspeople who seem to be attempting to put us into a hypnotic sleep? Even Katie Couric, who used to be so perky, seems on the edge of tears, I guess it's as close as she can get to sounding all somber and contemplative, like Cronkite, terribly saddened by the day's events. Small wonder that young people think the Daily Show is the latest news rather than a comedy skit. Only those craving a return to the old days care what Walter Cronkite says. Eons ago he filled a need for the BS we thought we needed at the time. If you want to catch a semblance of Cronkite’s act check out Bob Schieffer, his dour and tired persona changes, but only slightly, when he praises Bill Clintons or criticizes George Bush, I know one of these days he will blurt out, “I love you, Bill.”, and when Bush completes his term, he, Schieffer, will announce, “America’s long nighmare is over, thank God that I have lived to see this day.” Why does CBS feel the need to have newspeople who seem to be attempting to put us into a hypnotic sleep? Even Katie Couric, who used to be so perky, seems on the edge of tears, I guess it’s as close as she can get to sounding all somber and contemplative, like Cronkite, terribly saddened by the day’s events. Small wonder that young people think the Daily Show is the latest news rather than a comedy skit.

]]> by: Melinda Iley-Dohn http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-9933 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:15:17 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-9933 I count myself fortunate to have been born the same time Edwin R Murrow was on the air and that I grew up watching John Chancellor and Walter Cronkite. Today's kids grow up with gossip dressed as the news. In the age of Google and easy access to so many technological advancements there is no excuse for the lack of media integrity other than the fact that we have allowed corporate American entities to become the filter of what THEY see is all the news that is fit to have. We must demand our journalism back and boycott these purveyors of garbage before their nonsense becomes a part of history books accepted as fact for all posterity. I count myself fortunate to have been born the same time Edwin R Murrow was
on the air and that I grew up watching John Chancellor and Walter Cronkite.
Today’s kids grow up with gossip dressed as the news.

In the age of Google and easy access to so many technological advancements there is no excuse for the lack of media integrity other than the fact that we have allowed corporate American entities to become the filter of what THEY see is all the news that is fit to have.

We must demand our journalism back and boycott these purveyors of garbage before their nonsense becomes a part of history books accepted as fact for all posterity.

]]> by: Peter Knopfler http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-9493 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:00:56 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/12/walter-cronkite-on-the-media%e2%80%94and-the-mediachannel/#comment-9493 Thankyou Mr.Cronkite, I grew up, like many, listening to you, thankyou for showing me what's right, I miss your reporting greatly, you are an American Hero. Thankyou Peter. Thankyou Mr.Cronkite, I grew up, like many, listening to you, thankyou for showing me what’s right, I miss your reporting greatly, you are an American Hero. Thankyou Peter.

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