I only barely remember seeing Walter Cronkite on the television, but I do remember that he was someone important. Back when news was reported and not owned by politicians; back before yellow journalism took over like the creeping cancer it is.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/17/eveningnews/main5170556.shtml(CBS) The "most trusted man in America" is gone.
Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," has died. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his family by his side at his home in New York after a long illness. He was 92.
Known for his steady and straightforward delivery, his trim moustache, and his iconic sign-off line -"That’s the way it is" - Cronkite dominated the television news industry during one of the most volatile periods of American history. He broke the news of the Kennedy assassination, reported extensively on Vietnam and Civil Rights and Watergate, and seemed to be the very embodiment of TV journalism.
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