Walter Cronkite, The Misinformed News Anchor
By James T. Moore (09/07/07)
If every newspaper in America momentarily put their agenda on hold, softened the focus on local news, broke ranks with "mass media" reporting, gave less attention to sports, fashion, and crime, and for once in their life told the raw, unfarnished truth about what's really happening to this country, the print media would not only gain immense respect but would literally be heroic in the public's eye.
What brought on this verbal avalanche was not something I dreamed up to get notice or make it into the Democrat’s opinion pages. Far from it. What prompted it was a report I received from WorldNetDaily, a highly-regarded gatherer of sensitive reportage that you will never see in your newspaper or on television. Why? Because it is truth revealed, and today’s mass media is woefully short of that.
The story that needs to be told concerns Walter Cronkite, a legendary news icon that anchored the CBS news from 1950 to 1981. But that’s just a smidgeon of the achievements, experiences, and accolades of this bigger-than-life, U.S. Broadcast Journalist. His awards for journalism are too numerous to include here, but a bit more of this legendary newsman’s activities is in order.
Once called “the most trusted figure in American public life”, Cronkite literally defined issues and events for two decades; and his nightly newscasts were often scrutinized by politicians and fellow journalists for clues to the thinking of mainstream America. He covered WW II, went ashore on D-Day, parachuted with the 101st Airborne, flew bombing missions over Germany, and covered the Nuremburg trials.
Cronkite was initially a hawk on the Vietnam War. But after a trip there, he said: “It seems more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is a stalemate,” and he urged the government to open negotiations with North Vietnam. A year later, Cronkite “anchored” the flight of Apollo XI, and broadcasted for 27 hours, covering the flight.
Cronkite’s style of separating “reporting from advocacy” (reporting news objectively, without taking sides) became his legacy to news anchors worldwide. In short, Walter Cronkite has become the quintessential American “booster” and his candid and honest trademark exit line “And that’s the way it is.” has become a symbol of American resolution, purpose and realistic view of the world.
But now comes the sad part. It seems that Walter Cronkite, “the most trusted figure in American public life” has suddenly changing his mind about America, forfeiting some of the trust we had in him. According to the “WorldNewsDaily, Cronkite advocates the U.S. giving up its sovereignty, and creating a U.N standing army. What’s more, he is getting a nationally syndicated (King Features Syndicate) newspaper column to air his views.
And what are Cronkite’s views?
In recent speeches, he has revealed himself as a globalist; meaning New World Order. In a speech at the U.N. in 1999, Cronkite said: “It seems that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a step toward world government patterned after our own government, with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter bill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.”
In the face of the U.N.’s apathy and failures, Cronkite is still gun-ho for this socialist trap. “We are going to have to have international law,” he said. “We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law, and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice.”
It is time for someone to take the Master Journalist aside and tell him that our Founding Fathers had already set up those three complementary branches of service, because they knew that as human beings, no “executives” can ever be trusted to keep their authority from morphing into tyranny. Which the structure of the U.N. (New World Order) portends.
But the splintering of our existing laws and loss of American sovereignty is the primary reason for looking askance at Walter Cronkite’s change of heart.
You’re a good man, Walter, but if you were to say, “And that’s the way it is”, I believe most Americans would answer: “But that’s not the way it should be.”
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