July 18, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
Many in the news business have touted Cronkite’s passionate interest in new technologies and his willingness to take the work of the field reporter to the cutting edge of radio and television media, despite his early start in the business of ink and newsprint. More than oppose emerging media which had shifted the news culture away from his principles, he urged fellow reporters to be rigorous, thoughtful and given to probing investigation, so that the service they provided would be worthy of the expectations the public invests in the free press.
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July 18, 2009 :: J.E. Robertson :: One Comment
American journalism has lost one of its elder statesmen. Walter Cronkite was one of the founding fathers of broadcast journalism, pioneering a warm, conversational style for delivering facts with detachment and gravitas. The old-style newsman delivered news to the American viewing public about John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, the protests of the 1960s, the Moon landing (40 years ago Monday), Watergate and other major moments of crisis and achievement.
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November 22, 2008 :: staff :: Comments Off
According to the Associated Press, around 500 people gathered in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, to honor President John F. Kennedy, exactly 45 years after he was assassinated there. The nature of the killing has been in doubt from the moment it was carried out, and the official history of a lone gunman, one Lee Harvey Oswald, has been disputed by independent investigators, a New Orleans prosecutor, numerous conspiracy theorists, Oswald himself initially, the US Congress and the Oscar-winning film, JFK, by Oliver Stone.
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