Walter Cronkite is dead at 92. It will take several days for me to get enough distance from the event to write about it. It feels as bad to me as the day John Lennon died. In a very real way Cronkite’s passing represents for me the death of any sort of integrity in television [...]
Imagine a college journalism professor standing before his class saying, “If a python bites a man in Kenya, it’s a commonplace event and seldom newsworthy. But if a man bites a python during a fierce three-hour struggle, it’s news.” Especially if police superintendent Peter Katam says later, “We are still seriously looking for the snake. [...]