Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for March 19, 2020

dang, he’s THAT old?!

Chronkite was the last one I trusted.

Almost like he never heard of McCarthy and Murrow.

Back when one could attach anchors to those big wood cabinets.

‘and that’s the way it is…’

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/and-thats-the-way-it-is-walter-cronkites-final-sign-off/

He remembers when moby dick was a sardine.

He remembers when Howdy Doody was a block of wood.

Where is Walter when we need him?

An alumnus of my alma mater (ASU) by the name of Walter Cronkite was one of them!

When Fox is your normal, reality will seem biased.

The problem today is that just reporting what a politician says is taken as a political slant.

Amen.

I’m so old I remember when people were hired just for the ability to do the job.

That’s old!!!

Once Rupert Murdoch got his fingers into television broadcasting, the whole concept of impartial news reporting was turned on its head. He managed to convince the viewing masses that there was a great liberal media conspiracy and other broadcasters were misleading the public. Rupert’s News Corp. television and radio outlets were the right way to view the news – Objectivity be damned! The more vitriol, the more sensation, the more outrageous the views equaled more viewers and that meant more advertisers with more money to contribute to the Murdoch empire.

In the U.S.A., Faux Noise has become Trump’s brain. Fox News effectively controls everything that the Orange Emperor thinks and says on any subject.

Got that right, they gave you the news not their opinion of the news

I remember Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, Harry Reasoner and Howard K. Smith, Edwin Newman, and John Chancellor. What we have today doesn’t even begin to measure up to those men, who were giants in their field.

Edward R. Murrow and Jim Acosta: Who is the best? Discuss! LOL

Then he wasn’t paying attention

I wish we were back to that type of news reporting… things would be so much better for it.

I guess I’m as old as or even older than Biz. I remember before we had TV in our house.

Same here.

Frankly, the whole lot of today’s crud readers couldn’t hold a candle to any one of those mentioned.

I’m old, too.

News reporters, teachers, ministers and most celebrities kept their personal politics to themselves. Ah, the good old days.

My grade school principal was Cronkite’s aunt. She was kinda mean. I saw him once in NYC but didn’t get to talk to him.

I miss that