Rambling online - could be dangerous. Walter Cronkite dead at 92. A good long life. It is such a stark reminder of the way getting our news has changed. Hard to imagine events like Watergate, the JFK and MLK assassinations, etc... without him and to wonder how they would have been covered today. With 24 hours news and many "entertainment" shows, it seems we have been mourning the death of Michael Jackson on TV for many more hours of coverage than those events.
Just like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein inspired so many journalism students for their coverage of Watergate, I like to think that Cronkite brought a better quality of news to the networks. But I don't think it lasted. Corporate involvement became bigger. It would be interesting to hear what Cronkite thought about today's news. And perhaps we will in the following days. When we learn more about what is happening on the streets of Iran from Twitter and Facebook than from the major networks - it is a very changed world from the days of Walter Cronkite broadcasts.
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