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The Media Bloodhound blog’s Brad Jacobson has a post (7/22/09) adding some depth to the Walter Cronkite as belated-Vietnam-War-critic story: Following his death last week, various network news tributes replayed footage of Cronkite’s influential ’68 on-air editorial. Yet scrubbed from the memorializing were similar instances of Cronkite’s journalistic candor regarding Iraq, such as his 2006 […]
In a piece about current media “Celebrating Cronkite While Ignoring What He Did” by (belatedly) condemning the U.S. war on Vietnam, Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald (7/18/09, ad-viewing required) addresses another recently passed war reporter as well: When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam died, media stars everywhere commemorated his death as though he were one of […]
Norman Solomon has noticed (Common Dreams, 7/20/09) that “media eulogies for Walter Cronkite–including from progressive commentators–rarely talk about his coverage of the Vietnam War before 1968.” An “obit omit” Solomon deems “essential to the myth of Cronkite as a courageous truth-teller”: But facts are facts, and history is history–including what Cronkite actually did as TV’s […]
