As I returned this evening from our local AAA baseball team’s game, I learned of the sad news. Walter Cronkite has left us. Mere hours before the most famous broadcast (IMHO) he ever made, covering Neil Armstrong’s landing on the moon and his descent to the lunar surface.
I suppose it’s not right to say that we are worse for his passing, since it has been 28 years since he last anchored a nightly news show, but he wasn’t gone then. Now he is. He was a reporter and anchor at a time when the very fabric of trust in this nation was torn to shreds by Richard Nixon. Cronkite was one of the few things you could believe. Cut from the same cloth as Murrow, he was one you could trust. He didn’t opine, unless he told you that he was doing so. He gave you the news and let you decide. Hey Fox, CNN, MSNBC... ever thought about that?
So, without going on and on, I’ll say this. Farewell, good sir. Thank you for always being the one I could believe in.
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