Walter Cronkite asked Neil, when you were on the moon, did you feel closer to god?
and people like Walter Cronkite, and David Brinkley, and Chet Huntley, and Frank Reynolds, and Howard K Smith were accepted as being more or less objective
When Walter Cronkite used to end his CBS newscast with the rock solid assertion that "that's
This is Walter Cronkite sitting at the set that was designed for it. The set was called Hal 10,000 because it was actually designed by the same set designer, Douglas Trumbull,
Stuart: Ouch >>Tom: And Walter Cronkite in a setting like this -- wonderful man -- he was asked a couple questions.
So you were my Walter Cronkite.
But was it better back then with Walter Cronkite and Huntley-Brinkley, or has it evolved to a-- it's
woman who has been a kind of Walter Cronkite, a trusted figure in broadcast journalism for many years and has written a memoir. And she wrote this memoir and decided, although she
fit a UNIVAC on set next to Walter Cronkite, so they built like a Star Trek version of it with just some flashing lights next to him. And with 1% of the vote in, the UNIVAC
I'm old enough to have grown up around the time of Walter Cronkite.
Total non-sequitur. And watching Cronkite's facial expression is priceless, because he's not sure he's heard it right.
referring to the Stampede called us a drug-addled mob of kids but then perhaps Cronkite is not quite as in touch with
When Huntley, Brinkley, and Walter Cronkite began their broadcast across the country for the first time if you lived in the remote reaches of the Cascades Mountains in Washington
I watched my grandfather who was a World War II vet and my dad connect to Walter Cronkite.
And we looked to journalism through folks like you and Mr. Cronkite as really -- yes, being the oxygen for us.
that struggle you might as well be fighting with aliens such as your regard for their well-being Walter Cronkite
So when the fires broke out, I mobilized my colleagues and my graduate students, and we went out to cover, using our Cronkite journalism news passes
I mean, it's almost quaint today to look back 20 years and say, there was a time when Walter Cronkite, the anchor
And again, this is part of, we don't live in the world where Walter Cronkite brought all of us the news of President Kennedy's death at the same time and 40 million of us
And the next day, we could go in and say, "Where were you when Walter Cronkite told you that--?" It's not a synchronous mass culture world in that way.
the way it is"--for those of you who are too young to remember, that is how Walter Cronkite ended his newscast.
When there was an Apollo mission and there was a moon walk they would preempt programming on TV and you would have folks like Walter Cronkite narrate the moon walk.
The Roper poll was saying that it was going to be a close race. So what did Walter Cronkite do? He lied to the American people and said the UNIVAC says it's going to be a close race.