Just heard the Walter Cronkite: 'See it Now' and McCarthy NPR program ...

Bozita

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Sun Mar-28-04 12:37 AM
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Just heard the Walter Cronkite: 'See it Now' and McCarthy NPR program ...

...so very relevant to today. 13 minutes of Cronkite and tapes preserving the memory of Edward R. Murrow. If you haven't heard it, you're missing Cronkite at his absolute best. Super good listening.

Enjoy!

link to listen:

http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/driveway/index.html

Cronkite: 'See it Now' and McCarthy
Commentator Walter Cronkite marks the 50th anniversary of a watershed event in television news.
All Things Considered - March 9, 2004

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Enraged_Ape

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Sun Mar-28-04 12:46 AM
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1. These Cronkite pieces have all been excellent

I also thoroughly enjoyed his Eric Sevareid piece, which I heartily recommend if you haven't heard it. It's just shocking, and so sad, to realize that there were several decades when journalists almost universally aimed for the literate amongst us, rather than for the lowest common denominator. Sevareid, Cronkite, Howard K. Smith, and Edward R. Murrow were all products of that time.

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Bozita

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Sun Mar-28-04 01:12 AM
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2. Just listened to the Eric Sevareid piece -- Thank you, thank you.

I remember watching Eric Sevareid's final essay. His commentaries were the best thing on network news. Nothing was close. I really loved his stuff.

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Enraged_Ape

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Sun Mar-28-04 03:29 AM
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3. No one would ever do a commentary like his today, and it just sucks

ALL of television seems to be aimed at the third-grade level. No news telecast would ever use words the audience might (GASP!) have to look up in a dictionary.

I don't know if Sevareid was aiming at those people who had some education and were proud of it, or if his audience WAS proud of whatever education they had. I suspect it was a bit of both. Either way, it's just a tragedy that his days and those standards are long gone.

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