Walter Cronkite RIP
 

Sad news.

Hard for the younger generation to realize, I think. Michael Jackson's
passing is more important.

Cronkite's passing is starting to make me feel old.

RIP.

Eisboch

Walter Cronkite RIP
 

Eisboch wrote:
Sad news.

Hard for the younger generation to realize, I think. Michael Jackson's
passing is more important.

Cronkite's passing is starting to make me feel old.

RIP.

Eisboch


They have a procedure using electricity somehow to make you forget old
memories.
Kids have great outlooks and few melancholy or bad memories.
People that stay active and focused on where they are going are
generally happy and healthier.
When you have to give up work etc your mind starts to work and remember
all those accumulated experiences and conditions your outlook. It is not
age that makes many retirees depressed. It is usually bad health caused
or influenced by stress including consequences of memories now coming to
the surface all the time.
Cronkite's passing means so much, to many, of us, because he was a fond
fixture, of our youth and we miss that. We have little to replace what
we had. This generation doesn't know what they missed. Perhaps it is
better that way.

Walter Cronkite RIP
 

Eisboch wrote:
Sad news.

Hard for the younger generation to realize, I think. Michael Jackson's
passing is more important.

Cronkite's passing is starting to make me feel old.

RIP.

Eisboch



Likewise. He seemed to tell us about every important event of his time,
and his reportage from Vietnam and how we were failing there was the
beginning of the end of our involvement in that fiasco.

Walter Cronkite RIP
 

Very much a pillar of my formative years. Much admiration for him.

Walter Cronkite RIP
 

"nada" wrote in message ...
Eisboch wrote:
Sad news.

Hard for the younger generation to realize, I think. Michael Jackson's
passing is more important.

Cronkite's passing is starting to make me feel old.

RIP.

Eisboch
They have a procedure using electricity somehow to make you forget old
memories.
Kids have great outlooks and few melancholy or bad memories.
People that stay active and focused on where they are going are generally
happy and healthier.
When you have to give up work etc your mind starts to work and remember
all those accumulated experiences and conditions your outlook. It is not
age that makes many retirees depressed. It is usually bad health caused or
influenced by stress including consequences of memories now coming to the
surface all the time.
Cronkite's passing means so much, to many, of us, because he was a fond
fixture, of our youth and we miss that. We have little to replace what we
had. This generation doesn't know what they missed. Perhaps it is better
that way.


A little heavy for me.

I just grew up (as I suspect many of us here did) watching a true
professional journalist deliver the news in a truly unbiased manner. (he was
a hard core liberal, but you would never know it then).

I watched him briefly break up while reporting JFK's assassination and
death.
I watched him react in awe as Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon.
I watched him report the assassination of Martin Luther King.
I watched him give the nightly "body bag count" during the Vietnam War.

He was the last of the old school, professional journalists. It's why
people like Olbermann make me sick.

Eisboch

Walter Cronkite RIP
 

On Jul 17, 9:43*pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
"nada" wrote in ....
Eisboch wrote:
Sad news.

Hard for the younger generation to realize, I think. *Michael Jackson's
passing is more important.

Cronkite's passing is starting to make me feel old.

RIP.

Eisboch
They have a procedure using electricity somehow to make you forget old
memories.
Kids have great outlooks and few melancholy or bad memories.
People that stay active and focused on where they are going are generally
happy and healthier.
When you have to give up work etc your mind starts to work and remember
all those accumulated experiences and conditions your outlook. It is not
age that makes many retirees depressed. It is usually bad health caused or
influenced by stress including consequences of memories now coming to the
surface all the time.
Cronkite's passing means so much, to many, of us, because he was a fond
fixture, of our youth and we miss that. We have little to replace what we
had. This generation doesn't know what they missed. Perhaps it is better
that way.

A little heavy for me.

I just grew up (as I suspect many of us here did) *watching a true
professional journalist deliver the news in a truly unbiased manner. (he was
a hard core liberal, but you would never know it then).

I watched him briefly break up while reporting JFK's assassination and
death.
I watched him react in awe as Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon.
I watched him report the assassination of Martin Luther King.
I watched him give the nightly "body bag count" during the Vietnam War.

He was the last of the old school, professional journalists. *It's why
people like Olbermann make me sick.

Eisboch


When his broadcast on the news events was over, he always lit his
pipe, and dad got a kick out of him blowing "jet streams" of smoke in
a side profile shot of the camera lens.

Wasn't WC branded as the "most trusted man in America?"

At least he was in journalism IMO.

Rest well, Walt.

Walter Cronkite RIP
 

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:43:58 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:

He was the last of the old school, professional journalists. It's why
people like Olbermann make me sick.

He was the best of the best in his day and perhaps in our lifetime.
Walter was a serious boater also. He had a house on the water in
Edgartown at Martha's Vineyard, and a whole series of cruising
sailboats named Wyntje. It was not uncommon to see him sailing around
out there. He once passed within a few feet of our stern while we
were anchored in Edgartown, giving us a big smile and a wave as he
went by.

http://www.oxfordboatyard.com/projects_wyntje.html

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/82...Hulton-Archive

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-2999...feeds%2Flatest

Walter Cronkite RIP
 

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:12:35 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:


Sad news.

Hard for the younger generation to realize, I think. Michael Jackson's
passing is more important.

Cronkite's passing is starting to make me feel old.

RIP.

Eisboch


You're correct. I wonder if the younger generation, or even big parts
of the older generation compare what Cronkite did for man versus what
MJ did.

I'm also wondering if Brian Williams, Chris Mathews, and Keith
Olberman are looking in the mirror this morning thinking, "I wonder if
America will respect me as much?"
--

John H

Walter Cronkite RIP
 

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:43:58 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


He was the last of the old school, professional journalists. It's why
people like Olbermann make me sick.

Yup, journalism has fallen a long way. I have a lot of respect for
Cronkite, but I have to ask, was I the only one watching the Huntley-
Brinkley Report?

Walter Cronkite RIP
 

"thunder" wrote in message
t...
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:43:58 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


He was the last of the old school, professional journalists. It's why
people like Olbermann make me sick.

Yup, journalism has fallen a long way. I have a lot of respect for
Cronkite, but I have to ask, was I the only one watching the Huntley-
Brinkley Report?


Before or after Huntley died?

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

Walter Cronkite RIP
 

On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:28:22 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:43:58 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


He was the last of the old school, professional journalists. It's why
people like Olbermann make me sick.

Yup, journalism has fallen a long way. I have a lot of respect for
Cronkite, but I have to ask, was I the only one watching the Huntley-
Brinkley Report?

No, you weren't. And there were other news outlets.
I never appreciated Cronkite smugly telling me "And, that's the way it
is."
Always replied, "Nope, that's only what you choose to report."
I was no fan of Cronkite. But he was a historic figure in the news
business, and by all accounts a decent man.
Walter Cronkite has passed on, and that's the way it is.
RIP.

--Vic