That was the way it was
Posted on | November 12, 2007 | No Comments
The television news landscape today is filled to overflowing with with the egomaniacal, vapid, insensitive and just plain stupid. More than 26 years ago, Walter Cronkite passed the baton, as he put it, to Dan “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth” Rather at the CBS Evening News. Little did I realize, as we watched that last episode in the newsroom of the UCLA Daily Bruin, that we were witnessing the death of television news.
Often, we look back at something in the distance and remark on its quaintness and simplicity in comparison to our own supposedly edgy, sophisticated present. I look back at Cronkite, Brinkley, Huntley, and the legends before I was born and realize we didn’t know how good we had it.
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November 14th, 2007 @ 11:32 am
In our house, we watched John Chancellor. Don’t know why, we just did. Amazing that the No. 3 guy back then was such a better journalist than the ones we got today.
And I’m not one of those people who thinks everything was better when I was kid.