If You are Under 45 Years Old, Here’s a Personal Explanation as to Why—and How—Cronkite was so Powerful and Influential
TVWeek’s Managing Diretor, Chuck Ross, does the explaining in his Open Mike blog–click here.
Daily Archives : Jul 18, 2009
NBCU Profit Drops 41% in 2nd QTR, Revenues Fall 8%
Citing declining ad revenues and cutbacks in consumer spending, NBC Universal’s second quarter profits fell 41% and its revenues fell 8%, Reuters reported. The company–80% owned by General Electric–also cited a write-down of its Ion Media stake and few DVD…
David Halberstam on Walter Cronkite
In 1976, the late writer David Halberstam wrote a piece in The Atlantic magazine about broadcast news. With Walter Cronkit’es death, The Atlantic has just republished, on its website, the parts of Halberstam’s piece about Cronkite. Here’s an excerpt of that reprint: "[Cronkite] was not…
TV News Legend Walter Cronkite Dead at 92
Walter Cronkite, the legendary CBS Evening News anchorman once named the “most trusted” figure in American public life, died Friday of cerebral vascular disease. He was 92 and had been in ill health for some time. Cronkite, who famously ended…
How Cronkite was Instumental in Helping Make the Primetime Emmys What They Are
Without Walter Cronkite, the Primetime Emmys might not exist as we know then. In a piece in the L.A. Times’ The Envelope, Tom O’Neil, who wrote the wonderful "The Emmys" book, recounts that incident and more. To read the entire…
George Clooney, Who Co-Wrote, Co-Starred and Directed Movie about CBS News, Talks About Cronkite
Speaking about Walter Cronkite, George Clooney said the following according to CBS and a released statement: "I’m the son of a newsman, and it’s a huge part of my life, I grew up in a newsroom. I know Walter very well,…
Cronkite on What Broadcast News Has Become
"The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed." Walter Cronkite in his 1996 memoir, "A Reporter’s Life." "The misfortune with…
Cronkite on the Accusation That the Press Has a Liberal Bias
In a 2003 interview Richard Zoglin of Time Magazine asked Walter Cronkite: "You have basically come out and said you’re a liberal. How do you respond when critics say, ‘Aha, I know reporters were liberal, and this is why the…
CBS to Air Tribute to Cronkite Sunday Night
"That’s The Way it Was: Remembering Walter Cronkite," will air on CBS Sunday, July 19 at 7 p.m. ET/PT, pre-empting a rerun of "60 Minutes.". ABC News ran a tribute to Cronkite on Friday night as part of "Nightline." The…