It Never Fails......

The minute you write a column about journalism and its ethic of getting it right, you can count on something in that column being wrong. It's practically a rule of thumb, just as it is a rule of thumb that any column that makes wisecracks about other people's grammar will invaluably contain a grammatical mistake itself.

So in my Tuesday column about Walter Cronkite, I mistakenly attributed Frank Reynolds' on-air temper tantrum to coverage of the Kennedy Assassination in Dallas when, in fact, it occurred during the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981.

This much is certain: it's never easy reporting an assassination or an assassination attempt on the air while people watch.

And, admittedly, few have ever anchored on-air breaking news as authoritatively as Walter Cronkite.
--Jeff Simon

Comments

[BobbyCat]

Uncle Walter was everything they say he was. But few seem to remember his supporting cast - the best stable of seasoned journalists ever assembled. Eric Severeid, Charles Collingwood, young Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, Harry Reasoner and a dozen more. CBS News was the Yankees and the Celtics put together.

[The Frequency]

Haha, yeah right, Bobby. Dan Rather. A real all-star journalist. Especially when there's a need to broadcast about a 1970 memo that inconveniently was "typewritten" using a Microsoft Word computer font. Classic.

[DM 215]

In all the articles about Cronkite, not once has any so called reporter mentioned the fact that he deliberatly lied to the American public when he declared the Tet Offence the worst defeat ever for the American military. In the proud tradition of Cronkite, most of the media, the Buffalo News included, continues to lie to the American public with the biased slant to the left in every aspect of the "reporting" that happens. Cronkites' lie led to the end of American involvent in Southeast Asia. Of course, the Vietnamese people were so much better off under commie rule and Pol Pot worked wonders in Cambodia. The major media has abdicated its duty of being the gaurdian of the people from government to being a liberal mouth organ for the democrats, who are trying to turn this great nation into "Cuba North". The first thing despots do once they grab power is to take over the media, unfortunatly, the media in this country has already surrendered its place as the watchdog of the people. How sad for the America I grew up in, an America my son will never know.