Walter Cronkite has died

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Originally Posted By: buster
Yeah now it's just a free for all with a bunch of biased "reh" tards.

Oh, you can bet he was biased. His opinions and biased reporting was one contributing factor in the loss of support for our troops in Vietnam....like it or not.
 
Originally Posted By: mechtech2
His personal views were left and far left.


Relative to your viewpoint.
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No disrespect for Mr. Cronkite....but no matter how you perceive him, from a centrist viewpoint he WAS a leftist on most issues. In my opinion his last 'great' journalism days were back in WW2 (before he became just another left of center 'journalist').
 
Originally Posted By: andrewg
from a centrist viewpoint


Most people regard themselves near-centrists, no matter how far left or right they stand.
 
Originally Posted By: moribundman
Originally Posted By: andrewg
from a centrist viewpoint


Most people regard themselves near-centrists, no matter how far left or right they stand.


Yes. Everyone just ask the guy in the mirror if you're perfectly balanced and centered on all topics. My reflection says so ..but he's been known to lie ..from time to time.

Mary Poppins wasn't the only one who could pull a tape measure out and have it read "practically perfect in most ways".
 
Cronkite may have been a lefty but at least he didn't get a 'tingle' in his leg like Chris Matthews.

The LW bias of the mainstream media is dangerous because they report news differently depending on the politics of the person they are reporting on.
 
Hmm..I once asked a friend if he knew what fundamental motivation there was to be "liberal" in the media. While I don't really want to dip too far out here, I think I've determined that liberal views are just darn inconvenient at times.

For example, I really don't think anyone here "buys" propaganda. Now it's convenient at motivating people if properly applied. Back in Walter's day, there was a number of social revolutions that were "inconvenient" to those attempting to manage them.

My mother and father were lower income origin republicans. My father was in the Army when WWII broke out ..member of the VFW (and he didn't drink) and the American Legion.

He saw the near real time footage of Vietnam and got angry. He said, "They're having the poor fight this war".

As I said, some leanings make conducting your affairs as a nation inconvenient.
 
CBS is tripping over itself to air hours of biography material. Am sure they long for the days when broadcast news was king. Morely Safer was on the Sat. morning show live; poor guy's a shadow of his past self, rambling and finding words hard to come by.

Cronkite labeled his editorial views as such. May have come as a shock to the give-me-my-moving-newsreel crowd who, at the time, worshipped print journalism.
 
Originally Posted By: mechtech2
At least it takes the focus away from the endless MJ coverage.


There's one common element that I've observed with all social groups. We all need a sin eater. MJ served as a great place to deposit your displaced anxiety. You could express your outrage with impunity. I'm not saying that he didn't earn the position.

The other shoe in that two step is that even though you stabbed at the beast until it bled, you mourn for it as it dies.
 
Originally Posted By: greenaccord02
"The other shoe in that two step is that even though you stabbed at the beast until it bled, you mourn for it as it dies."

I just kept stabbing, but to each his own.


I applaud your ability to be separate from the herd of commonality and stick to your skewers.
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Ole! (I think that's the correct spelling
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Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Originally Posted By: mechtech2
At least it takes the focus away from the endless MJ coverage.


There's one common element that I've observed with all social groups. We all need a sin eater. MJ served as a great place to deposit your displaced anxiety. You could express your outrage with impunity. I'm not saying that he didn't earn the position.

The other shoe in that two step is that even though you stabbed at the beast until it bled, you mourn for it as it dies.
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Who is the new sin eater?
 
They're all over the place. Now there's a difference between sin eaters and sacrificial lambs. The role of the sin eater ends when he expires (in one form or another). Most could truly have their Richard Nixon (1962) farewell speech. When a sin eater is gone, you need to find a replacement. Sacrificial lamps, on the other hand, by their very nature, are expendable. They're an offering to the mob so that they don't find new sin eaters for their displaced anxiety.
 
Cronkite was never able to see the world government in all its glory. We are giving up quite a bit of sovereignty so I'm sure he was quite happy about that. I'll stop there.
 
Originally Posted By: benjamming
Cronkite was never able to see the world government in all its glory. We are giving up quite a bit of sovereignty so I'm sure he was quite happy about that. I'll stop there.

Doh! Better be VERY careful....many on this site lean a different direction.
Besides....no politics...right? Pretty tough to do since soooo many things in this country are directly related.
 
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