“Brinkley’s book will undoubtedly tarnish the Cronkite legacy. But my admiration for the man is only partly diminished. Perhaps it is too easy to judge him by today’s standards, any more than we… more →
Ethics Alarmswrote 4 days ago: I’ve listened a lot to Chris Hayes, and I happen to think he’s extraordinarily bright, p … more →
wrote 4 days ago: I hate either-or choices. But I do like Mondays. And I do need friends, so… 1. Shower or Bub … more →
wrote 6 days ago: “Brinkley’s book will undoubtedly tarnish the Cronkite legacy. But my admiration for the man i … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Times-Picayue predicts the end of local print news. Whats next? Yesterday the Times-Picayune announc … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Here are the Top 5 “news” stories on Yahoo!’s ticker this morning. And they are in … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Says Yahoo News: To millions of TV news viewers, Walter Cronkite might well have been the most trust … more →
wrote 1 week ago: It seems that there is a new biography of Walter Cronkite out. It was written by Douglas Brinkley an … more →
wrote 1 week ago: A book review by Howard Kurtz of much-revered newsman Walter Cronkite is available at the Daily Beas … more →
wrote 1 week ago: More than 1,000 views of Commuter Chronicles. Quite a landmark day for me. I never knew this would b … more →
wrote 1 week ago: I bought a small amount of Facebook in the IPO. It was a flyer. It was unscientific. It was count … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: As indicated in my previous post, the dissolution of public trust was initiated in the years of Pre … more →
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wrote 2 weeks ago: When my sister was little she used to jabber away in baby talk and no one really understood her. But … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: My first passage through Grand Central was in the summer of 1967 when “Uncle Tom” (Mama’s baby son, … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Walter Cronkite, on libraries “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to th … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: Yes, boys and girls, it’s story time again… and have we got a whopper for you. This is a … more →
wrote 4 weeks ago: It comes to this. By the time we’re at the fifth and final chapter of Inner Light, the dialogu … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I was a little famous for about 6 months. It didn’t really work out. (23 minutes) Download: em … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I love convergence! How can I not, I mean, convergence is bringing so many new and exciting opportun … more →