); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Neon John wrote: > ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false > Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:48:51 -0500, "Bill Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false >> Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY >> >> Yes, this is way off topic, unless you consider the passage of time. >> >> While I do admire Cronkite, the only true reporting was done by >> Edward R. Murrow, cigarette and all. That's before color TV. > > Cronkite was simply better at lying that the rest of 'em. That was driven > home to me > during the Three Mile Island thing. I was working at the Island at the time. > I'd go > home, turn on the TV and even recognize the TMI that he was talking about. > Being > involved in a national media event really opens one's eyes to the degree of > fabrication involved.
I don't think you should consider that lying. Cronkite didn't always gather the news he reported. If he did, he would have had to be everywhere on the globe at the same time. So, like most newscasters, he reported on information that was given to him by the reporters at the site... Sometimes it was accurate, but most of the time it had speculation added by a reporter who didn't quite understand the subject. [Journalism is not a subject that draws the best and the brightest students.] Cronkite's job was to bring the news to Mom and Pop America in a pleasant way that would assure an audience. -Chuck Harris _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
