Walter Cronkite Dies at 92; Practiced ‘Journalism’
July 18, 2009
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Overbearing: From NPNR, I’m David Overbearing.
TV News legend Walter Cronkite died Friday at the age of 92. Cronkite was renowned for practicing something known as ‘journalism.’ According to historian Tim Bannon, ‘journalism’ was a practice where people known as ‘reporters’ would question assertions made by government officials and others in positions of power.
Bannon: What these people did was extraordinary. They would judge what was said by those in the government and elsewhere against actual fact. And if what the government was saying didn’t match those facts, they would challenge the government. How the government ever let this happen, I don’t know.
Overbearing: Bannon says it is unlikely that ‘journalism’ will reappear anytime soon, as that would mean deviating from the prepared transcripts given to television networks by the government for each night’s broadcast.
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I love history. I wished the article would have talked more about what journalism was and how Mr. Cronkite practiced the dark art.
Comment by Mike — July 18, 2009 @Yo Mike! Dude above. I got your “dark art” right here for you, so you don’t have to wish anymore about how it’s practiced.
I’m a graduate of the “Karl Rove School of Journalism and Dark Art”. It works just like this: “We…Don’t…Torture!” See, it wasn’t really that hard now, was it?
Us Rovians do it nice and easy, you see. We rewrite the past and we write what we want to be the present. Hot damn, Heir Rove even bragged about writing the future “in the now” and told us that by the time we think we figure out what the hell is going on they’re already beaucoup chapters ahead, as we’re left scratching our heads. It’s Just…That…Simple!
Comment by Help Us All — August 15, 2009 @