 merrie says: Journalism Luminaries Salute Walter Cronkite The following statements were made by recipients of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism for a tribute video that was made in 2005. Bernard Shaw Former CNN News anchor and 1994 Cronkite Award Recipient “By his hand, by his heart, by his mind, Walter Cronkite has infected journalists and journalism for generations to come. As a reporter, as an anchor, excellence is his only standard. He can’t help it. He’s genetic that way. Walter shared his learning of how to be a journalist. He shared it universally. He shared it individually. He shared it with me.” Bill Moyers PBS Journalist and 1995 Cronkite Award Recipient “You were always fair; you were always helpful; you were always a man of integrity. I learned more being at your side when I was at CBS than I have ever learned anywhere else I’ve been as a journalist. ... You will always be, in my book, the very best.” George Will ABC News commentator and 1991 Cronkite Award Recipient “When the history of journalism is written about our era, it will be divided into separate eras – B.C. and A.C. – before Walter Cronkite and after Walter Cronkite. And the great division here is that Walter had in spades what today is lacking in huge proportion – and that is trust. It’s probably hard for Walter himself to fathom how the profession of journalism has declined in public trust, and I’m bound to say, public esteem since he left it. But the decline has been sharp and precipitous. In a profession, as with a currency, it’s good to have a gold standard, and Walter is simply the gold standard of network, national, shar... “By his hand, by his heart, by his mind, Walter Cronkite has infected journalists and journalism for generations to come.Infected? Yea that's probably right. |
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