Saturday, July 18, 2009
Walter Cronkite has died!
I remember growing up in the circle and the Viet nam war was raging and Walt would come on and give the body count for the day.When we were young there were no liberals or conservatives.There was the nightly news with Walter Cronkite.And thats the way it was!RIP!And God Bless!
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Who is going to be the last to "drink with"??????
Last night I was wondering to myself how Cronkite would have felt about three days of non-stop Michael Jackson coverage.
RIP.
I think MJ is news worthy and he had a great send off.
I didn't say he wasn't newsworthy but three friggin' days worth?
Those of us old enough to remember the assassination of JFK can recall that is what was devoted to that which was a national trauma.
Devoting that type of coverage to the death of an entertainer is just one symptom of how low the bar has been set in the realm of public awareness.
By and large I feel that this country is heavily populated by the ignorant.
Public acceptance of this media canonization of an entertainer as fact is just one more example of this sad reality.
Careful Doug your starting to sound like a conservative.
People live through celbs now. MJ was someone like princess Di, people felt they could connect with them and feel less hopeless. His music accompanied many of those life moments in our generation. I think he was totally news worthy. We live in the age of tech, when everyone wants to know what is happing at the moment and he made a colorful event that everyone could tune into and feel connected in a greater way. I guess many people just want to be part of the star shine. Plenty of other venues to get the news if you really want it.
Yea like talk radio!Hahhaha.
Doug I agree with you. Real people of influence don't get the recognition that a celebrity does. All MJ did positive was make music that some enjoyed. All Prices Di did was hold an aids baby.
MJ was a sexual pervert that will linger on in the victims minds and lives till they too die.
Prices Di was an adulter, who left her children to carry on a life of debauchery with a rich person. She was killed in a drunk driving accident. she was not wearing a set belt, which would have saved her life.
Mother Teresa died shortly after Di. She got little to no news time, because she was not a celebrity. But she did much more than Di could have done if she lived a long life.
That is the problem, we lift up child molesters and adulters on a pedestal and forget those who really do good for the world.
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