Just showing fox, what a Trusted News Anchor used to look like:

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6. Watching this clip makes me nostalgic and sad. I've been a news freak all of my life.

I know I heard Cronkite's sign off thousands of times.

I was in college during the Tet Offensive and I clearly remember watching the broadcast where Cronkite stepped out from his no nonsense, just the facts maam, delivery of the news and gave his prescient editorial on the Vietnam war. He called the war a stalemate, essentially a lost cause. He said the only way out was negotiation. I remember this because it was the only topic of conversation amongst those of us in the anti war movement for days. Johnson saw the hand writing on the wall and dropped out of the race for reelection soon thereafter. I felt that it was a validation of my decision to actively take part in the anti war movement.

In his closing clip, Cronkite said that while he was leaving, he was leaving behind a superb newsroom team to carry on. At that time it could be argued that CBS News was the top news reporting agency in the world. That CBS News is long gone and that is the sad part. In fact there are no current news agencies (possibly with the exception of BBC which in itself is not what it once was) with the depth and quality of CBS News in existence today.

AND THAT'S THE WAY IT IS, Wednesday March 9th, 2023.