Walter Cronkite is reportedly gravely ill, and is expected to bite the big one just about any minute. Cronkite's people have not confirmed this but evidently CBS News staffers have been leaking details of the network's preparations for the big post-bucket-kicking retrospective. Those born in the last 20 years or so will have no memory of Cronkite, who operated in that strange pre-cable-news era when TV journalists were actually trusted and admired, rather than rightfully scorned and ridiculed. His most famous moment was of course this one:
See that kids? That's called dignity. You've probably never experienced it before. It was once considered a virtue, but now...not so much.
