[amf4399]

I am the only one that didn't like the guy ? His reporting wasn't non bias but did it have a liberal slant to it especially during the Vietnam war? Example the Tet offensive. I was a little to young at the time but for what I have read I would put him up there close to Jane Fonda. Am I wrong on this? I can't see him as the most trusted man in America. I don't like to speak ill of the dead but I would at least to have my facts straight. Maybe some of the Vietnam era members on this sight can help me out on this.

[amf4399]

I found this artice which somes it up nicley.

Hot Air Blog Archive Walter Cronkite and the national will

sums it up at the end.

"After Cronkite came the deluge. Consider the trajectory of his successor, Dan Rather, who began his career lying about schoolchildren applauding the assassination of JFK, and ended it by trying to pass off falsified documents in a partisan hit job on President Bush during the 2004 elections. Cronkite was a powerful and accomplished newsman who made a fateful decision to become the news, instead of reporting it. His replacement was a ridiculous hack. Whatever you think of Walter Cronkite, it seems clear that his profession became smaller, and less trustworthy, after he passed through it. We would be wise to remember the lesson he taught us about the limits of American will in the Age of Terror. It’s better for us to win our battles fast and hard, and let the media weep for the enemy, than give the media time to dictate our strategy, and declare victory impossible."

[CD]

Yeah, after ole Walt told me the war was lost, I gave up all hope... Or was it because Westmoreland was lying out his ass or McNamara being a blithering idiot or Johnson / Nixon being brain dead politicians? IMHO Mike Wallace did more damage with his BS Rivera style as a "war" correspondent. Actually, I never gave up "hope" at all. The politicians lost the war and the media fed the civvies the news as they saw fit to and the sheep ate it like feed.

Nothing changes does it?

Wonder what you would get if you bred Hanoi Jane and Rather? Probably a younger John Kerry.

[FLHTbiker]

You know Kerry does look a bit like Jane the Bitch now that you mention it.

CD, they never learn do they as all those politicians are the same and makes me wonder why I bother to vote sometimes.

I hear now that if the popularity of the Afghan war gets worse they thinking of pulling the plug, it never changes.