Twitter is the new Walter CronkiteIn 1963, it was CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite who broke the big story of the JFK assassination. In 2009, Twitter would have it first. The news may not be as accurate, but in the age of real-time, that’s the way it is.
Walter Cronkite
2009: The Summer of Death
Forget the deaths of Kim Dae-jung or Baitullah Mehsud. So many celebrities have died lately — think Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett — that New York Magazine is dubbing it the ‘Summer of Death’.
How Cronkite led to Murdoch
Anchorman and TV founding father Walter Cronkite, who has died aged 92, influenced how America saw the world, helping shape his country’s electronic reporting “into the extraordinarily insular and inadequate chronicle it has become,” says Harold Jackson.
Journalists on Cronkite
Today’s biggest names in US broadcasting commemorate an icon of yesteryear.
Cronkite puts modern journalists to shame
The journalism world is soulfully commemorating Walter Cronkite’s death as though his work is somehow a reflection of their own; but can you imagine a modern media star actually speaking out against the US government and military the way Cronkite did? asks Glenn Greenwald.
Walter Cronkite: a life in pictures
The BBC celebrates the life and career of iconic US newscaster Walter Cronkite, who has died at age 92.
