Barbara Walters Announces 2014 Retirement

[MADem]

13. People who are very young don't realize that even Walter Cronkite did some banal and stupid shit.

It wasn't all taking off the glasses and telling us the President had died, or talking about Vietnam as a national tragedy, or narrating the moon landing.

Cronkite initially--and for entirely SELFISH reasons--opposed CAPE WIND, and used his celebrity to lobby against it. He later saw the error of his ways. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.capewind.org/news121.htm

Hey, everyone has to put "food on their family" to quote the Porge. And even icons aren't perfect. It doesn't diminish a lifetime of achievement...

I suppose the nice thing (in an odd way) is that a lot of these youngsters denigrating Walters are just so used to seeing women on television that they don't understand what a Big Frigging Deal it was to see her, or to see Max (RIP) Robinson, or Bernie Shaw, for that matter, on TV, IN CHARGE of the desk, either. What used to be a "Whoa/WOW" event is just a ho-hum/so-what thing.

She OWNS a big piece of that. She deserves props.