Mary Jo Kopechne died forty years ago this weekend. Nobody seems to be noting this. Yes, I know there are other things going on -- health care, Cronkite, Apollo 11.
Ted Kennedy is no longer a pro-life U.S. Senator, but he is still in office.
Sexual harassment is still a problem.
We just never get around to looking at all the stories.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite is dead.
I have to agree that his passing does have to mark something. I recollect seeing him on the television when I was a kid. We usually were eating when the CBS evening news was on and not watching the sin box, but when we did watch a network newscast, his was the one we saw.
All the major media are playing the story, CBS the most. But if I hear the “most trusted man in America” again I think I might reel. Cronkite was good, but I don’t know that he was that especially trustworthy.
And in the middle of all this, we need to remember that even CBS was not always supportive of Cronkite. In 1964 they had him anchor the Republican convention in Daly City, California, but dumped him from the booth for the Democratic convention in Atlantic City the next month. [I remember hearing a rumor that summer that CBS was going to make Cronkite the president of another venture they were acquiring, the New York Yankees. I never heard more of that. That was before the internet made all rumors truth and if not eternal truth, perpetual truth of some kind.]
I overheard it in a store last night that Cronkite had gone on to get an interview with a certain well-known pedophile who recently died. But as much coverage as his passage is getting, it will never catch up with what that guy got.
I have to agree that his passing does have to mark something. I recollect seeing him on the television when I was a kid. We usually were eating when the CBS evening news was on and not watching the sin box, but when we did watch a network newscast, his was the one we saw.
All the major media are playing the story, CBS the most. But if I hear the “most trusted man in America” again I think I might reel. Cronkite was good, but I don’t know that he was that especially trustworthy.
And in the middle of all this, we need to remember that even CBS was not always supportive of Cronkite. In 1964 they had him anchor the Republican convention in Daly City, California, but dumped him from the booth for the Democratic convention in Atlantic City the next month. [I remember hearing a rumor that summer that CBS was going to make Cronkite the president of another venture they were acquiring, the New York Yankees. I never heard more of that. That was before the internet made all rumors truth and if not eternal truth, perpetual truth of some kind.]
I overheard it in a store last night that Cronkite had gone on to get an interview with a certain well-known pedophile who recently died. But as much coverage as his passage is getting, it will never catch up with what that guy got.
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