Last night when I read Walter Cronkite had died I felt a real sense of sadness. He is the last of his kind. He was once named the “Most trusted man in America ‘’. This is a title that no journalist will ever receive in our time. We live in the age of instant news and we have very few real journalists in our newsroom. We have talking heads, blowhards and egomaniacs sitting at our news desks. We no longer just have the big three networks. We will never respect or trust a journalist like we trusted Uncle Walter. His death is not an end of an era because that era ended a long time ago. Walter Cronkite mattered because in his time and during turbulent times in this country he sat at the desk and gave it to us straight. No false indignation, no opinion, the facts plain and simple told by a reliable source and that is what is missing from the news today.
