And that's the way it is...

*Legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite died Friday at the age of 92. The man set the bar in many regards for many anchorman and anchorwoman that come along for the rest of the time. Cronkite told the news in a straight forward manner that had people coming back for every night. Cronkite's coverage of WWII, the Vietnam War, the Kennedy Assassination and Watergate could not be paralleled.

Here is an excerpt from the Washington Post article that I'll later link to about Cronkite and how he came to CBS.

"It was Edward R. Murrow, the patron saint of American broadcast news, who recruited Cronkite to come join CBS News in the early 1950s, after Cronkite distinguished himself in coverage from Moscow of World War II. "My first love was newspapering," Cronkite later wrote. But he could see, "as the 1940s drew to a close [that] television was coming into its own, and it became evident that the young industry would eventually become the dominant form of entertainment and news in the United States."

Cronkite was famous for a line that he finished every nightly newscast with: "And that's the way it is (and then the date). Say the line around anyone that has a degree in Mass communications and they'll know it was Cronkite. (Washington Post) (NYT) (Daily News) (LA Times)

President Obama's thoughts on Cronkite



If you would rather learn about Cronkite in his medium.