2009-07-20
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“ Astonishingly, no one thought to question the phrase that became his professional trademark, intoned at the end of each nightly bulletin: “And that’s the way it is.” That, in fact, was simply the way it appeared to Cronkite. As one of the founding fathers of America’s network television news and as managing editor of the CBS evening news for 19 years, his evaluation of world events helped shape his country’s electronic reporting into the extraordinarily insular and inadequate chronicle it has become. That, in turn, opened the door to Rupert Murdoch’s current brand of unashamedly partisan news coverage. ”
The Guardian’s surprisingly critical obituary of US anchorman Walter Cronkite, by Harold Jackson. via minority report.
