walter cronkite Archives

Murrow's See It Now. During the Vietnam Era, there was Walter Cronkite telling the nation the war was lost. Today? Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. In another fine example of professional respect and cooperation between two bastions of objectivity and journalistic integrity (and because their show is on hiatus), Conan host Conan O'Brien let Triumph and his handler Robert[...]

I always think back to Walter Cronkite declaring the Vietnam War lost during his national news broadcast; Edward R Murrow taking on Sen Joseph McCarthy and "McCarthyism;" and Anderson Cooper broadcasting live from the streets of New Orleans when the government said they couldn't get in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKvvxNBj0LwVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Matt Taibbi[...]