walter cronkite
GRITtv: Media Panel: Obama's Press Conference, Handling Torture Under the Bush Administration, and Walter Cronkite
Journalists at President Obama's press conference Wednesday asked about his current plans for health care reform as well as his thoughts on the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. What implications are there for health care reform now that he's admitted not everyone would be covered by a single payer system, and did he skirt the issue of race when it came to Gates?
Email this pageGRITtv: The F Word: What Would Cronkite Say About His NYT Obit?
Just how many reporting errors can you cram in a story celebrating great reporting? The New York Times put that question to the test when the so-called "most trusted man in America" died last week. The paper issued a three-page obituary with so many errors of fact that the correction itself takes up an entire column. To give you an idea: in their appraisal of Walter Cronkite, the Times misstated the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot, where Cronkite was when he covered the D-Day landing, the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon (on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of that event!), and several other errors including the name of the church in Manhattan where the family planned to hold a private funeral service. As Cronkite might have said, that's not the way it is.
