Walter Cronkite (AP photo)
I mentioned in November that former television news anchor Walter Cronkite must ailing as he didn’t attend the annual luncheon in his name that raises money for Arizona State University’s journalism school. The Associated Press is reporting today that the 92-year-old Cronkite appears to be “gravely ill.” That’s frequently a politically correct way to say that a public figure is near death.
Cronkite’s legacy still touches the American consciousness 28 years after he retired from the “CBS Evening News” desk. He was considered the most truthworthy newscaster of his era (and perhaps ever), and his skepticism toward official Washington’s explanations in the later years of the Vietnam War figured prominently in turning public opinion against that war.
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