Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November
4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served
as anchorman for the CBS
Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981). During the heyday of CBS
News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as
"the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion
poll.
He reported many
events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World
War II; the Nuremberg
trials; combat in the Vietnam
War, the Dawson's Field hijackings; Watergate;
the Iran Hostage Crisis;
and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy,
civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr.,
and Beatles musician John Lennon.
He was also known for his extensive coverage of the U.S.
space program, from Project
Mercury to the Moon
landings to the Space
Shuttle. He was the only non-NASA recipient of an Ambassador of
Exploration award. Cronkite is well known for his departing catchphrase,
"And that's the way it is," followed by the date of the broadcast.
The journalism program at Arizona State
University was named in honor of former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite in
1984.The relationship started when Tom Chauncey, the longtime owner of the CBS
affiliate in Phoenix and a leading supporter of journalism education at ASU,
contacted his old friend in an effort to help the program. An endowment on
behalf of the program was soon established in Cronkite’s name, and the school
was named in honor of the former CBS anchor.
Attaching the name of the nation’s most
prominent and respected journalist to ASU’s program gave the school an
immediate boost and national recognition, but that was just the beginning.
Cronkite became intimately involved with ASU, advising the journalism school’s
leadership, meeting with students and faculty, and traveling to Arizona each
year to personally give the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
to a media leader.
Since Cronkite's death on July 17, 2009, the
school has renewed its commitment to carrying on his ideals and values.
“The values that Mr. Cronkite embodies –
excellence, integrity, accuracy, fairness, objectivity – we try to instill in
our students each and every day,” said Cronkite School Dean Christopher
Callahan. “There is no better role model for our faculty or our
students. There’s no doubt that our close affiliation with Walter Cronkite
has helped the school become a national journalism powerhouse over the past 20
years, and will continue to help us as we grow into the best professional
journalism program in the nation.”
This year’s winner of the Cronkite award,
Anderson Cooper of CNN, was announced at a luncheon at the Sheraton in Phoenix
yesterday, October 17. During his remarks to the audience, Cooper told the
audience that the best way to handle attacks against the media is “more
reporting”.
The world that we live in today is far different
from the one that we lived in when Walter Cronkite was on the air. If you go to
the U.S. Holocaust Museum, you can see a sign hanging there that tells you what
to look for if you’re worried that your country may be slipping into fascism. You
can read their twelve early warning signs of fascism at the link below.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/01/31/the-12-early-warning-signs-of-fascism/https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/01/31/the-12-early-warning-signs-of-fascism/
If shouldn’t take you long to figure out that the Trump
administration is guilty of EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.
The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards honoring excellence in broadcast journalism were established in
1942 by Jessie Ball duPont in memory of her husband, Alfred I. duPont. The
duPont Awards, administered since 1968 by Columbia University's Graduate School
of Journalism, are considered to be the most prestigious broadcast journalism
awards and the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes, which are also administered
at the Journalism School.
In 2017, public broadcasting was
the cream of the crop. PBS had 23 awards, WBGH in Boston had 21 (many shared with
PBS), National Public Radio had earned 17. CBS and ABC each had 13, NBC 7, and
CNN 6. MSNBC and Court TV had two, and National Geographic, CNBC and Current TV
all have one. Fox News Channel?
Zero.
In February of this year, the
Trump administration announced plans to cut 97% of the funding for public
broadcasting in the 2019 budget.
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/02/14/trump-budget-lacerate-arts-media/https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/02/14/trump-budget-lacerate-arts-media/
The
odd thing about society today is that in 2011, Jon Stewart, on the Daily Show,
broadcast “fake news” every day, yet he was the most trusted man in America
http://tohell-andback.blogspot.com/2011/10/most-trusted-man-in-america.htmlhttp://tohell-andback.blogspot.com/2011/10/most-trusted-man-in-america.html
If his
lips are moving.
Since
the Washington Post has documented that Donald Trump has uttered more than 5000
lies since his inauguration, he has definitely put “the ring of truth” to the
above statement. As of today, more than 1 million copies of "Fear," Bob Woodward's new book about
Donald Trump, have been released into the world. In the index, under
"Trump, Donald," is this entry: "as liar."
https://www.creators.com/read/connie-schultz/09/18/are-we-still-pretending-donald-trump-isnt-lyinghttps://www.creators.com/read/connie-schultz/09/18/are-we-still-pretending-donald-trump-isnt-lying
In
spite of the tendency for politicians to stretch the truth a bit, it definitely
should surprise you to learn that the “most trusted man in America” 5 years ago
was a politician:
In my opinion, Bill’s wife Hillary is one of the most
qualified people to ever run for the office of president, but she is also the
most demonized:
Since Anderson Cooper was just given the Walter Cronkite
award, most people would (or should) consider him to be the most trusted man in
America, but his allusion to the attacks on news sources reminds us of the fact
that journalism can sometimes be a dangerous profession.
In June of 1976, Don Bolles, an investigative reporter for the
Arizona Republic, was killed by a car bomb because of his coverage of the
Mafia. In November of 2016, the Republic also received death threats because
they endorsed Hillary Clinton for president instead of the tweeter-in-chief.
Earlier this month, a Washington Post columnist named Jamal
Khasoggi was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Turkey. The link below goes
into more detail about his death, and it also references the significant
financial ties that Trump has with Saudi Arabia.
https://www.democratichub.com/posts/15898/jamal-khasoggihttps://www.democratichub.com/posts/15898/jamal-khasoggi
As a result, Trump is doing as much as he can to draw
suspicion away from the Saudis:
In this morning’s Wall Street Journal, President Trump said he wanted answers in the disappearance and
suspected murder of a dissident Saudi journalist but stressed the importance of
protecting business and security ties with Saudi Arabia, as Washington tried to
navigate a dispute pitting the kingdom against another regional power, Turkey.
Since “Davos in the Desert” is being held next week, it will be VERY INTERESTING to see who
shows up – and who doesn’t. On the morning of October 18, Treasury Secretary
(after consultation with Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo), announced
that he has decided to withdraw from the conference.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/10/18/davos-in-the-desert-once-a-sign-of-saudi-arabias-clout-the-spectacle-now-highlights-its-isolation/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ca750be6be3chttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/10/18/davos-in-the-desert-once-a-sign-of-saudi-arabias-clout-the-spectacle-now-highlights-its-isolation/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ca750be6be3c
Last year, at the inaugural conference
(officially the Future Investment Initiative), there were more than 3,800
attendees, Riyadh said. They came
from more than 90 countries, representing a vast share of the global economy.
Khasoffi disappeared on October 2, 2018. He is
a Saudi Arabian journalist, author, and a former general manager and
editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel. He
also served as editor for the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al Watan,
turning it into a platform for Saudi Arabian progressives.
Khashoggi left Saudi Arabia in
September 2017 and went into self-imposed exile. He said that the Saudi Arabian
government had "banned him from Twitter" and he later wrote
newspaper articles critical of the Saudi government. Khashoggi had been sharply
critical of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman,
and the country's king, Salman of Saudi
Arabia. He also opposed the Saudi
Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.
While he was in his self=imposed exile, he wrote
some columns for the Washington Post. His last column was received by Karen
Attiah, Global Opinions editor, a
day after he disappeared. In the column, he bemoans the fact there is only one
country in the Arab world (Tunisia) that truly has a “free press”. Jordan,
Morocco, and Kuwait are classified as “partly free”, but the rest of the Arab
world is “not free”. (Since Al Jazeera is based in Qatar, that country should
also be considered at least “partly free”.
Under the title of its newspaper, the Washington Post lists
the phrase “Democracy Dies in Darkness” – an idea that both Anderson Cooper and
Jamal Khasoggi would fully embrace.
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