Cronkite was a hack journalist like the rest.  That he reported accurately the assassination of Kennedy is a bad joke, it being the most outrageous public relation fraud since the Dryfus Affair.  the fraud of the Warran Commission set the stage for the 9/11-antrax public relations homicide and the pressent War on Terrorism and noeloiberal police state.

Eilenn Farrell as a citizen-journalist is the future of the population’s news.  these journalists would be more effecive if they were motivated by a spiritual ideology, as she is.  Because in the future as Obama installs a police state, US agents are going to target citizen-jounalists, as they are beginning to do now.

I wonder if it is possible to train citizen-jounalists en masse to provide a counter truth to the professional truth of the power structure.

I wonder what Cronkite would have done about the ongoing ordeal of Mordechai Vanunu, a prisoner of conscience held captive in Israel ever since he emerged from a tomb sized cell after 18 years in jail for telling the world the truth and providing the proof that Israel already had manufactured upwards of 200 nuclear warheads by 1985.

In April 1999, thirty-six members of the House of Representatives signed a letter calling for Vanunu’s release from prison because they believed “we
have a duty to stand up for men and women like Mordechai Vanunu who dare to articulate a brighter vision for humanity.”

President Clinton responded with a public statement expressing concern for Vanunu and the need for Israel and other non-parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty to adhere to it and accept IAEA safeguards.

NOT a word has been spoken from any president or congressional rep since.

On July 6, 2009, Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish continued to deny Vanunu the RIGHT to leave Israel and stated that his “case is still
generating great interest, like any other security-related case. The media’s attention he gets is proof of that.”

She could NOT possibly mean corporate media as they all have been MIA for Vanunu’s FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial which began Jan. 25, 2006.

However, the efforts of a member of the New Fourth Estate [citizen journalist] has filled that vacuum.

Freely streaming are 2005, 2006, 2008 video with Vanunu and reports from day one of his FREEDOM of SPEECH trial in the ‘democracy’ of Israel @ VANUNU ARCHIVES:

http://wearewideawake.org

Cronkite was an aberration; an anomaly. He strayed from the traditional sensationalism which has driven journalism since its inception.

As far as I can recall—and I can recall “You Are There,” like it was yesterday—Walter Cronkite threw over the traces on exactly two occasions: first, with the ‘stalemate’ remark about the Vietnam war, and then on Watergate.

That was of course twice more than anybody else ever actually did.

But for the rest of his tenure, he was a reliable, enthusiastic water carrier for the the mythology of Murkin Exceptionalism.

I worked in the media when the FCC lifted the regulations that no one owner could own more than 3 broadcast stations and 12 newspapers.  Now they all work for the same rich elitists (the Builderberg group) who run the world for profit. You won’t be getting any news from the mainstream media any more! The real journalists are to be found on the internet. and Cass Sunstein is about to silence the web…DON’T let him do it!
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07112009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/gag_the_internet__178749.htm

Could you imagine the UPROAR if an anchor such as Brian Williams were to publicly state on the news his belief that the war in Afghanistan was doomed to stalemate or defeat? He’d be yanked off the air so fast his head would spin, and would immediately become an “unperson.” No more “Brian Williams” on TV or anywhere else.

When WC was anchor of CBS in the 1960s and 1970s he said much the same about the Vietnam War, calling it a mistake and unwinnable. That was before the triumph of fascism in the United States.

Marie,

Locally, there is NO NEWS on television with a clear Left leaning tilt, everything is Right leaning with the slight exception of Public Broadcasting; Bill Moyers does what he can to cover the Left in the small time he has allotted.  On satellite and cable there’s world wide DemocracyNOW and world wide LINK TV and FSTV, FREE SPEECH TV.  Cable and satellite’s Maddow Show on MSNBC and Bill Moyers on the Public Broadcasting Network are as clear as the Right will allow the Left to be represented, as the Right owns all major networks and selfishly represent the Right to the exclusion of the Left.  I think it is more like 1% representation of the Left.  ALL Republicans represent the Right and only a very few Democrats actually represent the Left.  No Right-Wing conservatives or moderates should be on the Left, as all the Right’s REPUBLICANS are conservative and vote the straight conservative line, lock step with the Right; and the Right’s Democrats on the Left will also vote lock-step with the Right.

When Cronkite brought the news, the media had not yet been taken over by fascism, now fascist leaders rule the media and government; fascism being authoritarian corporate governance to the best interest of the Right; NEVER the Left.

It will be a miracle if the Left gets worth while health care out of this Congress.  I expect it to be an oppression something like the auto insurance scam that doesn’t cover everyone and is of no benefit to the poor or the working class, what so ever, just an oppression.

Get rid of fascism, we will get the real news back in the United States and the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION of the working class will cease to be oppressed.

’... This generation was not yet born when Cronkite signed off from “The CBS Evening News” in 1981. It has never known an era in which news coverage could unify and not divide.’

News coverage which unifies and does not divide is the mark of a totalitarian state.