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Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips walter cronkite dies clipped by: djenne Clip Source: www.truthout.org Walter Cronkite Dies Walter Cronkite has died at age 92. (Photo: Time Inc.)     Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," has died Friday night in New York. He was 92.     Known for his steady and straightforward delivery, his trim moustache, and his iconic sign-off line - "Thats 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.     "Cronkite came to be the sort of personification of his era," veteran PBS Correspondent Robert McNeil once said. "He became kind of the media figure of his time. Very few people in history, except maybe political and military leaders, are the embodiment of their time, and Cronkite seemed to be." Tags: walter cronkite zum Artikel... Media phail ! clipped by: beanz Clip Source: www.alternet.org Whats the Future of Journalism? Anythings Better Than Advertiser-Financed Corporate Media And it?s not like these are recent failings: Corporate media did much the same poor job covering the Kosovo War (Extra!, 7?8/99), the Gulf War (Extra!, 1991), the Panama invasion (Extra!, 1?2/90) and Vietnam (Common Dreams, 5/6/01). Financial reporters gave little warning about previous bubbles like the tech boom (Media Beat, 3/15/01) and the savings and loan scandal (Extra!, 3?4/89). For years, corporate media have been railing against any healthcare reform that doesn?t preserve insurance industry profits cheerleading for trade policies (Extra!, 11?12/94) that have produced a cumulative trade deficit of $6 trillion since 1993 presented the clear scientific consensus that humans are warming the Earth as a controversial question deserving of debate ( we found that the sources were 85 percent male, 92 percent white?and among partisan sources, 75 percent Republican. Tags: media zum Artikel... The Seminal Point for the Decline in Media Credibility clipped by: willhelm clippers remarks: "after nearly 60,000 U.S. deaths and countless Vietnamese casualties, we bugged out. There?s no way to put an honorable face on that. After the U.S. evacuated, here?s a description of what happened in Ba Chuc. ?On April 30, 1977, Pol Pot?s troops launched a surprise attack on 13 villages in eight Vietnamese border provinces. Ba Chuc was the hardest hit. The massacre was at its fiercest during the 12 days of occupation, April 18-30, 1978, during which the intruders killed 3,157 villagers. The survivors fled and took refuge in the pagodas of Tam Buu and Phi Lai or in caves on Mount Tuong, but they were soon discovered. The raiders shot them, slit their throats or beat them to death with sticks. Babies were flung into the air and pierced with bayonets. Women were raped and left to die with stakes planted in their genitals.? Cronkite didn?t cover it. Cronkite was wrong. ...his words became a watershed marking the place where the gradual erosion of the MSM?s credibility. Clip Source: www.americanthinker.com his comments were these: Who won and who lost in the great Tet offensive against the cities?  I?m not sure.  The Vietcong did not win by a knockout, but neither did we.  The referees of history may make it a draw. It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.  (Emphases added) When President Johnson heard of Cronkite?s comments, he was quoted as saying, ?That?s it.  If I?ve lost Cronkite, I?ve lost middle America.? In January 2006,  Cronkite said his statement on Vietnam was his proudest moment.  When asked then if he would give the same advice on Iraq, Cronkite didn?t hesitate to say ?Yes.? zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de