I miss Walter Cronkite. Even as a little kid I knew

[GPV]

he was telling it like it is and that I could trust him.

What news person do you miss?

[ALBliberal]

1. Dan Rather

And Brian Williams. I know he got sidelined for exaggerated claims but he was awesome on 11th hour. Stephanie Ruhle is doing well though.

[GPV]

2. I was mad at Dan for making Walter go. Lol

[dweller]

3. Rather is still available at his substack

https://steady.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile


✌🏻

[GreenWave]

4. Even when Huntley died, Cronkite delivered a more heart felt farewell than Brinkley.

[hunter]

5. Cronkite had his blind spots.

When I was a kid my dad, home from his union job, would pop open a beer and watch the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. But I think he would have preferred someone a little further to the left.

My dad was an artist with a day job and a pacifist. During the Korean war he was a nearsighted Radar O'Reilly medical clerk. It was just the luck of the draw he didn't end up in Korea.

Both my parents were anti-war activists. During the Vietnam war we were Quakers. My mom's dad was a Conscientious Objector during World War II. His compromise was to build and repair ships for the Merchant Marine.

I quit television news and opinion entirely in the disgusting run-up to the war in Iraq. I don't miss any of it.

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. I miss Walter too

A lot. I can't help wondering what he'd make of this mess we're in.

[electric_blue68]

7. Walter, Dan, maaaybe Jennings, and died way too soon: Frank Renalds, Ted Koppel

[Boomerproud]

8. Linda Ellerbee.

Sardonic but not sarcastic.