Walter Cronkite has passed on to that great newsroom in the sky after 92 mostly productive years as a denizen of the earth. The Most Trusted Man in America made his legendary reputation as the anchor for the CBS Evening News in the '60s, covering such iconic stories as the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War and the moon landing. He eventually handed the reins to Dan Rather who wasn't fit to nibble his corns, but that's another story.The TV news has deteriorated significantly since Cronkite's day, degenerating from a dignified, trusted source of information and community togetherness into a 24-hour-a-day cacophony of pundits, blowhards and gam-flashing blonde floozies. This has happened for one reason: news operations are now required to make money, whereas in Cronkite's day, putting on a news broadcast was considered a public service, and profit was secondary. Capitalism is like a virulent disease destroying everything. I'm sure that old pinko Cronkite would agree.
