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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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
"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…
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…
"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…
“Walter set the standard by which all others have been judged," President Obama said, the Associated Press reported. Sen. John McCain called Cronkite, "one of the most influential newsmen of our time," the AP said. —Chuck Ross