I'm reading a Boston Globe story about Walter Cronkite, and it said that he was so influential internationally that in Sweden, anchorpersons are known as "Cronkiters".
Is this actually true?
I'm reading a Boston Globe story about Walter Cronkite, and it said that he was so influential internationally that in Sweden, anchorpersons are known as "Cronkiters".
Is this actually true?
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I think this these might be what Xiahou was trying to link to.
http://www.zogby.com/search/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1454
http://www.zogby.com/search/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1710
Either way he got me there, I retract my statement:
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.
I guess it is easy to get lost in the large numbers for average views of Bill O Reilly (3.5 million viewers) and think that nothing has changed. I apologize.
Nope. Never heard of the word, it doesn't exist on any Swedish site, not even with an alternate spelling. I suspect the it's same for the Dutch that shows up in the same type of rumours.
That doesn't mean that he lacks an international reputation though. I certainly recognize his name, even though born after his heydays.
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Yeah, it just sounded odd. One of those time you just read the newspaper and go "Really?"
I'm going to keep an eye on the corrections section.
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That (the above transaction between OverKnight in USA, and Ironside of Sweden) is a perfect example of how "news" and its presentation has changed.
In Cronkite's heyday, with only 3 major TV broadcasters available in major urban areas, we were forced to rely on the integrity and research of the news presenter and his huge team of fact-checkers, source-vetters, double-checkers, wire-service providers, etc.
So, we had to assume that when Uncle Walter said: "The sky was blue today", his fact-checkers had consulted weather experts, government officials, long-distance wire services, and a couple of university meteorologists, ahead of broadcast time (which was live in those days), to confirm that in fact, in America that particular day, the sky was mostly blue.
So we trusted that what he said was true, or as true as could be confirmed from multiple reputable sources, as possible.
OTOH, what Xiahou wrote is true as well: that was spoon-feeding us news, and in the hands of someone less scrupulous than Mr. Cronkite, could have been blatant lies, and we might never have known it. Fast-forward 20 years to Wolf Blitzer's reporting the US used nerve-gas in 'Nam; when debunked, his defense was: "I just read what they put in front of me." Cronkite-style reporting died that day.
That trust was gone. So now we have the 'net, and more direct contact with our own sources to check and double-check info. Improvement? I think so. But it takes more work on my part as an info consumer. Which I'm OK with. But I worry about my fellow citizens who continue to rely solely on TV so-called "news" outlets as their only source, ala the 1960's and 70's.
Be well. Do good. Keep in touch.
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Kukri, I think another very big factor in the picture is the tendency towards shock and sensationalist journalism. Sure, these things existed in the past, but now the media tries to make moles out of anthills, etc etc. Combine that with the lack of personal responsibility and you have where we are today.
Come to think of it, personal responsibility went out the window for the American public quite awhile ago.
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RIP Uncle Walter, you did a good job spoon feeding us a bunch of biased news for decades without any notice. You helped spawn Dan Rather and Katie Couric, and gave as much support to communists and lefties across the world. You will definitely be missed by many, just not so much by those that truelly understood what you were doing. Say hi to Mao and Che for us.![]()
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Funnily, I read an article on the web pages of the Norwegian state channel about his death; and it was said that his name had become a synonym in several languages for 'news anchor'; though not one language was mentioned specifically. I am to lazy to research this further; but personally I had never heard of his name.
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