RIP Walter Cronkite

[Xiahou]

Sorry to tell you but that's how it still is nowadays. People watch the type of partisan news (O' Reilly, Obermann) that fits their ideology to comfort themselves and not deal with having to think for themselves or possibly even realize that the opposing side might have some good points as well.

Sorry to tell you, but you're wrong.

People have varied news sources, with the Internet being the most prolific and fastest growing medium. Note- before anyone starts handwringing about unreliable Internet blogs:

Very few Americans (1%) consider blogs their most trusted source of news, or their primary source of news (1%).

From what research I have done, modern news began to turn into what it is now after the removal of the Fairness Doctrine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine) in 1987:

From what research I've done, our news has greatly improved since it's removal. The fact that a solid majority of people are not happy with the current state of journalism speaks volumes to how far we've come from a time when most people were perfectly happy to be fed news from one or a couple sources.

I don't want to drag a memorial thread too far off topic, so I'll leave it here.

RIP Cronkite, but I'm also glad that our news media has evolved beyond the need for a Cronkite.