Walter Cronkite dead at 92
posted at 8:29 pm on July 17, 2009 by Allahpundit
I have no reaction aside from the basic human sympathy one would feel for anyone who’s died. But as I said after Jacko passed: If you’re in the habit of watching cable news, you’re in for a very rough, very hagiographic week. Good luck.
Update: He retired as anchor of the CBS Evening News in 1981 at the ripe young age of 64, leaving us with decades of Dan Rather coverage that might not have been. Terrific.
Update: WaPo was ready with its obit. His most controversial moment as a reporter:
Cronkite was often viewed as the personification of objectivity, but his reports on the Vietnam War increasingly came to criticize the American military role. “From 1964 to 1967, he never took anything other than a deferential approach to the White House on Vietnam,” Gitlin said, but added, “He’s remembered for the one moment when he stepped out of character and decided, to his great credit, to go see [Vietnam] for himself.”
In 1968, following the surprise Tet Offensive of the communist North Vietnamese, Cronkite went to Southeast Asia for a firsthand look at the war. His reports on the “Evening News” and in a half-hour special were instrumental in turning the tide of American public opinion against U.S. policy.
“To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past,” he said, casting doubt in the minds of millions of Americans on official versions of the war. Cronkite’s viewers were certain that he would never lie to them, and the White House and the Defense Department did not command that level of credibility.
President Lyndon B. Johnson was widely quoted as having told aides, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.”
Update (Ed): I don’t have much to add here either, except to send my condolences to the Cronkite family. I have felt for a long time that both his fans and his opponents made far too much out of Cronkite, who was a good news reader — and a better ambassador for CBS than his successors. Walter Cronkite did not lose us the Vietnam War; that was lost by Congress in 1974-5, after Richard Nixon had managed to put it back more or less to status quo ante years past Johnson’s quote.
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Rich liberal hypocritical fool……see ya! Now we only need Teddy to retire or expire and maybe we’ll see windmills in Natucket sound.
dmann on July 17, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Keep askin’. You’re on the right track.
petefrt on July 17, 2009 at 9:13 PM
RIP
frankly, i have fonder memories of him as the host of the vienna philharmonic’s new years day concerts than i do as a news reader.
Mr. Bingley on July 17, 2009 at 9:13 PM
All of them that I know, including myself.
Also with Allah on this. Feel bad for his family, but I felt more sympathy for Billy Mays.
XWing5 on July 17, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Gotta love these prepared obits.
Speaking of prepared obits, tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of Chappaquidick.
RobCon on July 17, 2009 at 9:14 PM
All capitalists cash in during booms, that’s how big businesses are born.
Going back to your original point, though, the bigger difference between the right and left mentality is that, the left want an idealistic society ignoring the fact that human beings, by nature, are imperfect.
peter_griffin on July 17, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Thank God for xbox. Kept the dopers occupied.
Buddahpundit on July 17, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Anything to keep attention off the failing Obamacare discussion. Did Walter take one for the team or was he pushed?
highhopes on July 17, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Do you have any opinions on this?
peter_griffin on July 17, 2009 at 9:16 PM
and mine’s broken
and i don’t do dope
all that’s left is hotair.
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Here’s hoping it is the day Teddy Kennedy finally dies.
highhopes on July 17, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Very good point.
Les in NC on July 17, 2009 at 9:17 PM
I used to watch WC every night with my Dad as a kid and repected him as a professional. I think he actually tried to temper his liberal views on air until he retired which is more then I can say for todays media scum.
That said, todays lefty toadies like Katie Cupcake will be treating the passing of a 92 year old man like a national tradgedy.
Rest easy oldtimer.
DeweyWins on July 17, 2009 at 9:17 PM
I feel nothing, which is what he would have felt had he heard I died. I didn’t know the man and 92 is a pretty good run. He was not a great man regardless of what he seemed to believe about himself. He was not a reporter, but a liberal activist pretending to be a reporter. There are plenty more where that came from.
echosyst on July 17, 2009 at 9:17 PM
This will ensure Obama gets his healthcare through with less media coverage. Even in death, Cronkite found a way to flip the far-right the bird. RIP, WC.
dcwvu on July 17, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Useful idiot
ndulik on July 17, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Good thing I have lots of stuff on my tivo, this will last a week
KBird on July 17, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Why do you hate America?
hillbillyjim on July 17, 2009 at 9:20 PM
William Amos,
The most well-known civil war of the late twentieth century, the Lebabanese Civil War, lasted 15 years from 1975 to 1990.
The Irish War of Independence lasted four years – from January 1919 to July 1921.
Though why does it have to be “over in less than five” years? You said insurrections typically last 10-12 years. So any insurrection outside that time frame would disprove your thesis. Why the five-year limit?
The Algerian and Malay insurgencies both lasted 10-12 years but that dosn’t mean it’s a fixed rule.
Besides we’ve been told that the war in Iraq has already been won, yet U.S. troops have only been there for six years. So is there to be another 4-6 years of war in Iraq? If so then all the conservative who declared victory in Iraq are liars.
aengus on July 17, 2009 at 9:20 PM
I don’t know the man — nor do I like his work in “journalism.”
However, he seems to have had a family that loved him, and whom he loved.
Good for him
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Excuse, I meant to write three years.
aengus on July 17, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Again, I was not around in that time at all. However, apparently he was polled to be the most trusted person in this country in 1972. I think some president said, they would lose Middle America if they lost Cronkite. So, why did people put so much trust on him?
peter_griffin on July 17, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Another option is to try the Netlflix instant player (Roku)
peter_griffin on July 17, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Ah, a rare glimpse into the liberal mind: media scrutiny of Democrat policy is a bad thing. Keep dreaming, pal. Obama’s healthcare plan is on life support.
As for Cronkite, his autobiography is a good read, and no anchor since has had such a fantastic voice or presence in front of the camera.
Slublog on July 17, 2009 at 9:22 PM
So, it’s over?
hillbillyjim on July 17, 2009 at 9:23 PM
I do want to say, that attitude that let the media cast Tet as a victory is not necessarily a left-right thing, it is an ignorance of economy, where costs are never accounted for. The media said “My God! Look at what the Viet-Cong can do!” without once considering the remarkable amount of time and resources that went into it, that would make any future Tet completely infeasible. The media had the mindset that a new Tet could just be magically summoned every weekend. Similarly, I had an experience in a graduate class on Middle Eastern politics, where the professor (who is a very smart man and is very proficient with the subject) stated that the security fence in Israel doesn’t make a difference because Hamas can just use thousands of rockets to replace a single suicide bomber. Again, no thought about the shear amount of resources required for those rockets versus the suicide bomber. You can see this in any discussion of new defensive technology: “Oh, the enemy will just use multiple warheads, hit the tank with two missiles, won’t use sat/cell phones, etc., etc.,” without once considering the costs of those alternatives that ultimately makes the enemy less efficient and lethal. When it comes to violence, too many people who consider themselves intellectual have their brains turn off.
JSchuler on July 17, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Yes, many opinions, but too long winded to attempt to explain now. All I wanted to say is that you’re asking the right questions, that’s very good and keep on with it, as you’re on the right track. The answers may take a while to collect and assimilate.
petefrt on July 17, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Well, I have always found this puzzling. I was not born when Walter Cronkite reported, but why has the media always been liberal? Why couldn’t a charmer like Reagan change this phenomenon? Is it because in its intent to “conserve”, conservatives are just not that news worthy? What is it? Has anybody done any analysis on this?
peter_griffin on July 17, 2009 at 9:06 PM
It didn’t used to be the case. As a matter of fact, quite the opposite: journalists used to be more conservative than liberal, up until the Murrow era.
But two things changed all that: Woodward/Bernstein and the academic credentializing of journalism.
Woodward and Bernstein brought Nixon down and they had cool haircuts and became huge celebrities, so that appealed to young kids thinking about their futures.
At about the same time, the Left, in their strategy of the “long march through the institutions”, took over the universities. At exactly the same time, businesses – including the media – started requiring college degrees (a direct result of the Civil Rights Act, but that’s another story).
So what then happened is that the journalism schools got to brainwash the kiddies and the rest is history.
Ask a journalism student today why he wants to be a journalist and he will tell you who wants to change the world.
The old time reporters just wanted to file their copy, get a pay check, drink themselves goggle-eyed and get laid.
guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 9:26 PM
RIP W.C.
Thanks for you coverage of the moonlanding.
Vietnam. . .Not so much.
Texyank on July 17, 2009 at 9:26 PM
It seems obvious, but yes, you are correct.
hillbillyjim on July 17, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Liberals believe they have a right and a duty to force people to think their way and the best way to do that is to control the media.
AaronGuzman on July 17, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Then you know very little. Publically, no Bush supporters supported dissolving the UN. On forums like this the majority of commenters supported subordinating the UN to Bush’s foreign policy and a small minority actually opposed the UN as it is and adovated dissolving it as a malicious entity. But very few.
aengus on July 17, 2009 at 9:27 PM
The Godfather of the Agitprop Media, the hate America squad, was Uncle Walter. Jeezus, will Keith Olbermann’s passing be a big deal, just because he read you the “news” of important events in the country’s history? Get real, he was not on your side, he pulled against you at every opportunity.
SAme reason they elected Obama. They f*cked up, big time.
james23 on July 17, 2009 at 9:27 PM
How about this for an Obamacare ad? Old footage of Teddy walking around in that phony baloney neck brace, and then footage of fishing Mary Jo’s body out of the accident site.
Grim narrator and caption should read: “Under Obamacare, what quality of care will you receive: that which was available to Senator Theodore Kennedy or that which was available to Mary Jo Kopechne.”
BuckeyeSam on July 17, 2009 at 9:29 PM
X2. Very fitting that he pass on the anniversary of his crowning achievement, in spite of his other views and beliefs.
KillerKane on July 17, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Whoa, hold on there. I don’t know about wishing someone to “expire” is safe here. Despite political contrast.
FontanaConservative on July 17, 2009 at 9:29 PM
I think you’ve got your leaders a little mixed up. Diem didn’t realize anything in 1968 since he was killed in 1963 and he was President of South Vietnam, not North. Do you mean Ho Chi Minh?
Oldnuke on July 17, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Yes. The Northern Ireland issue is separate and may never be resolved but if you want to argue that the insurgency is 90 years old and still ongoing that would not fit with Mr. Amos’ 10-12 year time-frame.
aengus on July 17, 2009 at 9:30 PM
But how do you feel?
hillbillyjim on July 17, 2009 at 9:30 PM
R.I.P. Cronkite.
I may of hardly knew ya. And my only interpretation of you was through others, You’ll always be remembered.
FontanaConservative on July 17, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Another stinking liberal hypocrite. Big supporter of “wind power” but when they wanted to put windmills in the ocean,
near his house he told the media.”Hey, the wealthy live here and they need a place to play & relax too.”
Jeff from WI on July 17, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Yes, that would have been Lyndon B. Johnosn. A, Gasp, Democrat.
Oldnuke on July 17, 2009 at 9:33 PM
I stand corrected, thanks. I meant Vo Nguyen Giap.
guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Thank you for your thoughtful response.
hillbillyjim on July 17, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Gawd I’m sick of this sycophantic drivel paid to supposed celebrities. So far it was MJ the pedophile, now Cronkite the liberal loser, soon it’ll be wall to wall wailing for the vehicular homicide felon, baby killer Ted.
Jeff from WI on July 17, 2009 at 9:34 PM
I think that the UN, like the League of Nations before it, causes more problems than it solves and ought to be done away with completely. But I know that a majority of people – including “conservatives” – will never go for that proposal.
aengus on July 17, 2009 at 9:35 PM
dcwvu @ 9:03
you posted this earlier. you are still an @ss. no one here is celebrating a death or being hostile. they just are not revering a man the MSM says should be revered. we have our own points of view.
instant “karma” going to get you!
Willie on July 17, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Because he was avuncular.
guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 9:36 PM
The only thing I liked him for was his portrayal of Benjamin Franklin on Liberty’s kids.
Although he did not inappropriately touch children, it would not bother me if he ended up in the same place.
jamarkennedy on July 17, 2009 at 9:36 PM
I don’t wish physical hardship on anyone, and neither do I wish amnesty or glorification of murderers and cheats.
Mark Levin’s message on the 40th anniversary of Chappaquidick needs to be common knowledge.
petefrt on July 17, 2009 at 9:37 PM
For some strange and inexplicable good luck for Team Liberal
there always seems to be a ‘DISTRACTION’ that pops up,just
at the right moment,just like the Clintons neverending de-
bacuchery,if it wasn’t Commerence Secretary Ron Brown’s de
mise,or Bimbo-Eruptions,its something else!!
canopfor on July 17, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Aengus, I don’t even pretend to understand European politics, but I do appreciate getting your take on our circus as you see it. You are a treasure. Don’t ever stop opining on our ridiculous mess, PLEASE.
hillbillyjim on July 17, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Rest in peace brother.
Hook’em
Green Muse on July 17, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Just a reminder that we are all defeated by death. He does bring back memories of when I was in Southeast Asia and of black and white television but I will shed no tears of an American hating old fool.
MaiDee on July 17, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Yes, Giap was the general on the ground. Uncle Ho was the top dog. I really hated Giap, smug grinning little bastard.
Oldnuke on July 17, 2009 at 9:39 PM
That’s true of the content based media. That should not be true of interactive media (the so-called web 2.0). Yet, a majority of the political blogs tend left.
peter_griffin on July 17, 2009 at 9:41 PM
The man was a legend, not one I admire, but a legend. Given the media’s infatuation with him and the extended coverage, I wish he could have held on until Wednesday about 9:15PM just in time to cut into the Obama Healthcare Revue.
sherry on July 17, 2009 at 9:41 PM
A rash of celebrities dying, important votes coming down the pike. Lots of smoke and mirrors, or coincidence. I don’t believe in conspiracy theories, but with socialism knocking on our back door, it kinda makes you wonder. Still keeping my powder dry.
Sam_I_Am on July 17, 2009 at 9:41 PM
lol
i love your style
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Oh ok, that makes more sense.
peter_griffin on July 17, 2009 at 9:42 PM
..
Wade on July 17, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Because the factions in Lebanon had backing from Israel or Syria/Iran. They kept that war going.
Considering how Ireland has boiled over for decades after might also rethink this one as well.
William Amos on July 17, 2009 at 9:43 PM
RobCon:
Chappaquidick coinsided with the moon landing? I did not realize that.
Willie on July 17, 2009 at 9:44 PM
As a long-suffering tax-paying citizen of the Commonwealth I’m trying to be charitable. Teddy is a drug addicted drunken criminal plain and simple, the sooner he is maggot food the better, he is a fat blowhard who lives off the legacy of his family, he is beyond contempt. How’s that, better?
dmann on July 17, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Well, I was around. I was young at the time but living in a working class neighborhood in a DC suburb consisting of young professionals working for the government and on their way up and experienced blue collar workers. The neighborhood we were living in was new and nicknamed “peanut butter hill” because the dads would be taking their lunch to work to afford living there. My dad was one of the government workers. The neighbor to the right was a fireman. The neighbor to the left worked for Sears. Across the street, one neighbor was a dispatcher for the power company and another was a cop. When the Vietnam protests were in full force, one of the neighbors told his teenaged daughter (one of my babysitters) that if she went down to protest she shouldn’t bother coming back home afterward. And he meant it. It was that kind of a time.
Since there were only three networks, Cronkite was one of the trusted voices telling the public what was going on in the world. If Cronkite reported it, everybody believed it. There was little editorializing of the news, just the facts. I remember the casualty numbers from Vietnam being reported as if one were reporting where stocks closed. That’s why when Cronkite broke from the norm and made it personal by condemning the war it was such a landmark event. That simply hadn’t been done before.
To close the this rambling, I’ll add that I remember the announcement that Nixon was pulling troops out of Vietnam and my mom’s non-answer when I asked if that was a good thing. I’m not sure if there is still a clear answer to that.
highhopes on July 17, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Curtis Sliwa (ABC radio now) is being very generous toward Cronkite, interestingly enough.
petefrt on July 17, 2009 at 9:45 PM
I disagreed with his Viet Nam assessment. As a child, we watched him report the assassination of JFK and later, our moon landing. I will remember him covering the space race, an inspiration for my brothers and I becoming engineers.
Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord,
And let perpetual Light shine upon him.
May his soul
And the souls of all the faithful departed
Through the Mercy of God
Rest in peace.
Amen.
Zorro on July 17, 2009 at 9:46 PM
“HEEEYYY
It’s Curtis Sliwa
Does yoh engine have dat blinkin red light?
IF SO
go to Double A
BEEP BEEP
M-C-O!”
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Right back at ya!
sherry on July 17, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Whoops, I let a cronkite.
Gas relief is relief indeed.
hillbillyjim on July 17, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Sherry too bad indeed. But maybe with a few prayers Ted Kennedy can expire on Wednesday night. that would be an even bigger distraction.
MaiDee on July 17, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Good grief, when Tim Russert died last year you would have thought it was Jesus who passed away. Lord knows how much they’re going to lionize Cronkite who was a halfway decent newsreader. Nothing more, nothing less.
Percy_Peabody on July 17, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Fantastic voice. He inspired me to take a huge interest in the history of civilisation. As you can imagine, that’s a pretty big topic, especially when you were only about 13 at the time..
Reaps on July 17, 2009 at 9:49 PM
He had an illustrious career as a newsreader but to credit him as being some kind of icon is a little much. He was in some ways a prelude for what was to come – hos double-cross of John Dean comes to mind.
Paradox Drive on July 17, 2009 at 9:49 PM
thanks, sweet cheeks
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 9:49 PM
While he was better than today’s crop, that is not saying much; and no, he is not forgiven for giving the North Vietnamese a propaganda victory for the Tet offensive, which was a military victory for us.
Phil Byler on July 17, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Well, the press is all for “balance,” so they’ll excoriate the next few conservatives who die.
DrMagnolias on July 17, 2009 at 9:50 PM
….No. Loss. At. All!
….he proved over the past 8 years, that he was nothing but another typical Elitist Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi Leftist Democratic Traitor Nutbag…..
…his “persona” as an unbiased, sage, News Anchor was a complete and utter fraud….
Dale in Atlanta on July 17, 2009 at 9:51 PM
William Amos,
Yeah, so? Are you saying it’s not a real civil war if neighbouring countries stick their oar in? If it were not for the Syrian/Iranian-backed factons there would not have been a civil war. Their forces now all but control Lebanon.
Ireland did not boil over for decades after. There was a brief civil war lasting from June 1922 to May 1923 and then no conflict at all until 45 years later a new conflict began in 1969. Half a century of peace is not an armistice.
aengus on July 17, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Cronkite couldn’t tie Murrows shoes, and he knew it.
Jeff from WI on July 17, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Highhopes @ 9:45
I didn’t live in DC, I was in northern NJ, but remember it pretty much the same way.
Willie on July 17, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Thanks for taking the time, highhopes. I was trying to get a feel of the times and your comment definitely helped in that regard. I believe, as you do, that there is no clear cut answer on Vietnam. However, someone like you who has been through those times, can bring a wealth of information which was never reported, never captured on tape.
peter_griffin on July 17, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Yep, that was an MSM milestone, and the albatross around Cronkite’s neck. Not to mention a catastrophe for USA in Viet Nam.
petefrt on July 17, 2009 at 9:53 PM
You’re right, katy… I think a more accurate statement would’ve been:
“I miss how ‘In the Dark’ I was during the days of the “true” dinosaur media”…
Correction. Thank you.
nationspatriotcom on July 17, 2009 at 9:54 PM
“And that’s the way it is” July 17, 2009.
GarandFan on July 17, 2009 at 9:55 PM
If Russerts passing was akin to Christ’s death, then God died this week.
highhopes on July 17, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Courage.
highhopes on July 17, 2009 at 9:56 PM
The factions there were proxies for others. This isnt a real clear cut case of a civil war. In fact most of lebanon was occupied by either Syria or Israel for long periods of time. Only the Russia Civil war had that level of foreign troop involvement.
So is this really an insurrection as you stated earlier ?
William Amos on July 17, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Get ready for a week of JFK’s death on the black & white.
McNamara, Cronkite……next?
try again later on July 17, 2009 at 9:58 PM
When I think of WC, I think of the Killing Fields.
I would piss on his grave given the chance and hope, WC’s reserving a spot for Bernie Madoff in hell, when he dies.
I apologize for being so crude.
luvstotango on July 17, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Cronkite, Couric,not much has changed at CBS
Jeff from WI on July 17, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Re: Tet
When your country is at war, you report the news, sans frills, with the Joe Friday mindset. You don’t go off on your own analysis and make sh*t up. The demoralization that results reinvigorates the enemy. I hope one day we will have news readers who understand the influence they can have, and who act responsibly at all times.
Wish on.
whitetop on July 17, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Making me laugh again. I just started (a few days ago, in fact) listening to him. Before then, I couldn’t get past the accent. But so far, the guy’s not as bad as he sounds.
petefrt on July 17, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Only the good die young.
Eyas on July 17, 2009 at 10:03 PM
All downhill since Murrow.
Murrow, Cronkite, Rather, Couric….
Squid Shark on July 17, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Walter Cronkite endorses Campaign to Force Christianity out of U.S. Public Life
LifeSiteNews ^ | 2/28/07 | Gudrun Schultz
Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 5:58:50 PM by wagglebee
SAN JOSE, California, February 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new campaign to force Christian influence out of the public sphere was launched last week in San Jose, California, in response to what is seen as a returning strength of religious organizations in American society.
Led by members of the Interfaith Alliance, an organization dedicated to countering the influence of the conservative Christian Coalition on federal politics, the new campaign is designed to promote policies that would silence the political voice of the “religious right.”
Called ‘First Amendment First’, the campaign has been billed as a defense of the separation of church and state, which organizers claim is threatened by religious organizations’ involvement in political lobbying and endorsement of candidates.
Recommendations promoted by the campaign would see sweeping bans imposed on church activities affecting public policy, including a prohibition on church endorsement of political candidates. Research and health policies should not be founded on “religious doctrine”, the campaign states and a ban should be imposed on schools promoting a particular religion.
As well, campaign petitions include an end to state funding of any charitable organization that “discriminates in its hiring” or requires people hold a particular faith to receive services.
American news personality Walter Cronkite, a veteran of US media, endorsed the campaign, as did the Rev. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance.
Cronkite, now 90, served as anchor for CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. He is the spokesman and honorary chairman of the Alliance, which includes multi-faith and atheistic members. In addition to opposing religious influence on politics, the organization is dedicated to promoting public acceptance of homosexuality, calling for an end to “discrimination based on sexual orientation.”
Jeff from WI on July 17, 2009 at 10:04 PM
I am sure that Walter’s bust will be here soon……….
Seven Percent Solution on July 17, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Although remembered for his objectivity, he was the first of a long line of liberal “news readers” who interjected their opinions into the news.
But by all accounts, he was a very likable, funny and good man. I respect him for that.
RIP.
OK, that’s it. Next death please.
BierManVA on July 17, 2009 at 10:05 PM
May he rot in hell.
Jeff from WI on July 17, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Responsibility is the bottom line. It is a tricky line. Journalism should really be the reporting of truth, and a lot of folks can actually claim that reporting the news of losses can demoralize troops and hence should be banned. An independent media is at odds with a nation at war, I don’t think there is any other way to see that. Some countries, like Israel or Sri Lanka, therefore do a blanket ban on reporting war (at least suppress negative reports on war) when the country is involved in a conflict. I don’t think we would like that here, either.
peter_griffin on July 17, 2009 at 10:07 PM
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