The Death of Journalism: Walter Cronkite

When I heard about the death of Walter Cronkite I felt very sad about the lost, and his contribution to the nation. But then I have come to a conclusion that his lost no matter how great was a corruption of that institution.
Walter Cronkite along with many others destroy it. Instead of reporting the news in a bi-partisan way, he help bring about it’s destruction. Opinion should not have creep into the news to the extend that of what we see today on MSNBC or nearly every Network and cable Newscast. Cronkite would ultimately discard his life’s work to become an arbiter rather than a purveyor of news.

We have opinion pieces disguise as news pieces and we see such corruption in the Press that not even they can distingise between what is news and what isn’t. It was a shocker to that Cronlite-ism news media complain loudly of the establishment of one network and that was Fox News, How dare they just report and not spin it as Walter had told them to do. The media is so obsess with how terrible Fox was in comparison to the liberal spin. Fox News is now number one despite Cronkite, not because of Cronkite!

But they, the liberal media, cannot even understand the true meaning of reporting the news and not spinning it to their liking. They have lost their humanity to a political ideology and not what really happen. They want to become a part of the news and not a reporter of it.

Cronkite-ism of the news media has done such a disservice to America and to the American people. Sadly Cronkite, himself destroy his on creditability when he did not just report the news, but became a part of it in Vietnam. Cronkite reported a lost when it came to the Tet offensive, when the truth was the opposite. He himself could have killed thousands of soldiers during that war, but help in bring about the very defeat of the US in it. Even when the viet cong were defeated Cronkite’s analysis was wrong. Cronkite in effect made his contribution not as a reporter, but as a progressive commentator, he didn't report the news he dictated it.

Today the News media is obsess with the politics of Obama that they trip over themselves to lick his shoes. They have become a state run media, thanks to Uncle Walt. With Walter Cronkite we saw the death of journalism and not a honest interpretation of what was really going on. We see the likes of Half wits like Keith Olbermann, not reporting the news, but looking into their crystal ball and devising a agenda for it. Walter Cronkite was a great man. But for what he did to the craft of journalism, he should be soundly criticized, and not given a slap on the back and say that a boy! This is Walter Cronkite’s legacy. Shame on you Uncle Walt!