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Title: Walter Conkite :(
Post by: Hap on July 17, 2009, 08:28:48 PM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/07/17/2009-07-17_walter_cronkite_dead_at_92.html

Title: Re: Walter Conkite :(
Post by: Meatwad on July 17, 2009, 09:25:54 PM

 :(

Title: Re: Walter Conkite :(
Post by: uptown on July 17, 2009, 09:50:15 PM

 :cry

Title: Re: Walter Conkite :(
Post by: Blooz on July 17, 2009, 10:55:16 PM

"and that's the way it is"

Title: Re: Walter Conkite :(
Post by: Hap on July 18, 2009, 06:30:21 AM

Quote from: Blooz on July 17, 2009, 10:55:16 PM

"and that's the way it is"

gave me goose bumps, blooz.

Title: Re: Walter Conkite :(
Post by: WilldCrd on July 18, 2009, 09:45:50 AM

Quote from: Blooz on July 17, 2009, 10:55:16 PM

"and that's the way it is"

 :salute Clear Sky's and tailwind's forever!

Title: Re: Walter Conkite :(
Post by: soda72 on July 18, 2009, 02:12:39 PM

 :salute

Title: Re: Walter Conkite :(
Post by: rpm on July 19, 2009, 12:32:59 AM

He was a great anchor, reporter and commentator. Most importantly, he was a great American.

Title: Re: Walter Conkite :(
Post by: Irwink! on July 19, 2009, 03:04:54 PM

What, sadly, impresses me most is the disparity in media coverage when contrasted against the death of Michael Jackson.

I liked much of Michael Jackson's music and consisidered him a great performer despite all the allegations of his personal weirdness.

That being said, the day after Jackson's death the local newspaper ran a front page totally devoted to Jackson's death with a huge image of MJ. It consumed the entire front page.

Conkrite, in contrast, got a little front page space below an obviously canned weekend story about local home sales. Yeah, Jackson dying was a big story. But Conkrite's death was, in my mind, the passing of an era and a cultural icon vastly greater than that of Michael Jackson. Such are the values of today.