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CBS Betrays Flaws With Cronkite Slight

Submitted by Stagger Lee, Aug 9, 2007 23:42

As if being a friend of Mickey Hart was some sort of character flaw? What the hell is wrong with you people?


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As if being a friend of Mickey Hart was some sort of character flaw? What the hell is wrong with...

Stagger Lee 

Aug 9, 2007 23:42

What a crazy article. CBS gives Walter Cronkite a special and David Blum thinks it was an insult because... it... [MORE]

Dave 

May 26, 2007 01:19

We might get better results if we look for people who we WANT to put into office, rather than passively... [MORE]

John Champagne 

May 23, 2007 15:50

Should more, or most, of the blame for Cronkite's non-existence on CBS be directed at Dan Rather? Did he really... [MORE]

Newzie 

May 22, 2007 20:53

I agree that CBS is on a downhill skid, somewhat ahead of NBC and ABC. After its Opie and Anthony... [MORE]

Jerome Washington 

May 22, 2007 18:42

I can't speak to much about the Cronkite special as I did not see it. However, I'm guessing it was... [MORE]

Andy 

May 22, 2007 14:49

Excellent commentary on the slighting of Cronkite whom I have missed since his departure from CBS. Network news - infotainment... [MORE]

Sharon 

May 22, 2007 14:34

I'm only 40; grew up watching Walter. Turned off, and by, Dan then, and now by tv news overall. A... [MORE]

Newzdaze 

May 22, 2007 12:43

I never considered Mr. Cronkite a particularly handsome man, but he had (and still has) an honest face, That obviously... [MORE]

More than just a pretty face 

May 22, 2007 11:32

For eight years -- the last years of glory -- I was a correspondent in the Paris bureau of CBS... [MORE]

Joan Shore 

May 22, 2007 11:05

CBS did no promotion of this special. I was home Friday night watching baseball and I would have watched if... [MORE]

harryo 

May 22, 2007 09:33

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