Walter Cronkite

Is Brian Williams The Walter Cronkite Of The 21st Century?

Posted 06.02.2010 | Media


Is Brian Williams the new Walter Cronkite? That's the claim MarketWatch's Jon Friedman makes in his latest column. Friedman, who admits that he did ...

Getting It Wrong: Why Many of American Journalism's Most Cherished Stories Are Exaggerated or Apocryphal

W. Joseph Campbell | Posted 05.19.2010 | Books


W. Joseph Campbell

Media-driven myths often emerge from an eagerness to find influence and significance in what journalists do. These myths affirm the centrality of the news media in public life and ratify the notion the media are powerful, even decisive actors.

Univ. Of Texas Exhibit Showcases Cronkite Career

AP | JIM VERTUNO | Posted 05.14.2010 | College


AUSTIN, Texas — Walter Cronkite covered the birth of space exploration, John F. Kennedy's assassination and Watergate. Yet the reporter and tel...

Green News Report -- April 22, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.22.2010 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Oil rigs expl...

Is the "United States" About to Get Scrapped?

Abigail Pesta | Posted 05.14.2010 | Home


Abigail Pesta

I'm referring, of course, to the "S.S. United States" -- the fastest oceanliner ever built. Last week, news broke that the foreign owner of the histor...

Beyond Krugman's "And That's Just the Way It Is"

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.04.2010 | Media


Steven G. Brant

The news media must start reporting which side's argument is correct, and stop reporting only the argument between the two sides itself.

The (Mis) Information Age

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 05.23.2010 | Media


Dr. Jim Taylor

The problem is that there is no longer any source of objective and trusted information. These days, you can't find "fair and balanced" news anywhere.

Did Katie Couric Fire Walter Cronkite's Voice...Or did the Cronkite family, make his voice "quit" Katie's show?

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media


Stephen Viscusi

By Stephen Viscusi Although I work on TV now myself, preparing for my own TV show "The Job's Whisperer" I started my career as a headhunter, then ra...

Dead Folks, 2009: The Missed and the Not Missed

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 03.18.2010 | Entertainment


Tallulah Morehead

Here's my own brief look at some of the more notable celebrity deaths of 2009. As always, they fall into two categories: "The Good Riddance List" and "The Folks We'll Miss List."

Media Deaths 2009: Cronkite, Hewitt, Dunne, Novak, Safire, Mays, Harvey & More Remembered

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media


2009 may go down as the year of celebrity deaths — in no small part due to Walter Cronkite, who passed away in July and whose September memorial...

Brian Williams Accepts Cronkite Award, Says Cronkite Wouldn't "Have Cracked Through" In Today's Media Landscape

AP | TERRY TANG | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media


PHOENIX — NBC newsman Brian Williams said Wednesday he's not sure if Walter Cronkite would have succeeded in the age of cable news, blogs and Tw...

NBC's Brian Williams: Changing the World for the Better

Jim Luce | Posted 03.18.2010 | New York


Jim Luce

Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...

The Mustache Movement

Jerry Zezima | Posted 03.18.2010 | Living


Jerry Zezima

I may not be British, but for the past three decades, I have kept a stiff upper lip. Now, after all these years of hair-raising adventure, I am celebrating the 30th anniversary of my mustache.

Is This Tom Friedman's "Walter Cronkite Moment" on Afghanistan?

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics


Harvey Wasserman

No one contends that Tom Friedman has the influence that Walter Cronkite did, but could Friedman's anti-Afghanistan editorial mark a similar war-time shift in thinking?

Sony to Release This Is It Sequel, This Is Also It

Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.28.2009 | Comedy


Andy Borowitz

"When we put together This Is It, we thought it was it, but it turns out it wasn't it," said Sony spokesperson Carol Foyler.

Walter Cronkite Will Leaves Papers To University Of Texas

AP | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media


AUSTIN, Texas — A University of Texas official says Walter Cronkite's papers and photographs will be permanently housed at the Austin campus and...

Ted Turner Would Fire Lou Dobbs

Linda Milazzo | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media


Linda Milazzo

If Jonathan Klein were as responsible an executive as Ted Turner, and as conscientious a citizen as Ted Turner, he would be as concerned as Ted Turner about the danger of Lou Dobbs.

'South Park' Returns, Takes On 'Summer Of Death' With DJ AM, Farrah, MJ, Billy Mays And More (VIDEO)

Posted 03.18.2010 | Comedy


"South Park" returned last night with an episode called "I See Dead Celebrities," in which Billy Mays, David Carradine, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, Wa...

Trial by Firefight

Rob Fishman | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media


Rob Fishman

It's clear that Cameron Todd Willingham was (mis)tried by a kangaroo court, but will justice be better served by the media zoo that's ensued?

Walter Cronkite's Apartment To Hit Market For Almost $3 Million, Listed By Companion Joanna Simon

The New York Observer | Max Abelson | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media


After Walter Cronkite died this July at age 92, it was sad to think that brokers would be clamoring for an apartment that had belonged to someone with...

Warning to the Boss: Think of Having Sex with Your Employee as the Same as Incest!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 03.18.2010 | Business


Stephen Viscusi

Bosses..does that make the point any easier to remember? At least once a month, I get a call from a TV producer or reporter, who is covering a stor...

Fake News Is the Real News

Roderick Spencer | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media


Roderick Spencer

It strikes me as downright surreal that Stewart and Colbert, and not the 'real' anchorpersons, seem to be the people on TV who actively adhere to concepts like fairness, primary sources and facts.

Mindless Stars and the Glamour of the Gun

Tom Gregory | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment


Tom Gregory

Across the pages of leading fashion magazines mindless stars with thin careers are being showcased wearing Future Heretics t-shirts glamorizing guns.

Walter Cronkite Records Destroyed By FBI

USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media


A search of the agency's main index of the subjects of FBI investigations found some records tied to Cronkite's name were destroyed in October 2007, t...

The End Of 2009's Summer Of Death

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 11.21.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — We had been told to expect the deaths of the famous to come in threes, not in the dozens. But all through the summer of 2009 came a ...