Perhaps, with the exception of Bill Moyers, Walter Cronkite was the last man that could truly be called a journalist.
No one was really sure that Jack Kennedy had died until Walter Conkite took off his glasses, choked up, and told us that Jack Kennedy was dead. Back then, it didn't get more official than that.
And far too many wouldn't have believed that a man had actually set foot on the moon until Walter Cronkite told us it was so.
He was the most trusted man in America and for good reason. He was, what used to be called a journalist in the truest sense of the word, as opposed to the charlatans who endlessly bloviate on our TV screens today.
His death marks the death of an era when the words journalistic integretiy and truth meant something. Will we ever see such an era again? Will we ever see the likes of Walter Cronkite again?
