“Cronkite was the face of the ‘CBS Evening News’ from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the assassinations of President ...

On March 6, 1981, Walter Cronkite signed off with his original trademark “and that’s the way it is” for the final time.

The idea that there was once an omnipotent, omnipresent and widely respected mainstream media may largely be a myth. But like many myths it has a real-world inspiration, and Uncle Walter’s newscast, ...

Many of you, I have to assume, were watching TV in the late 1960s as images of blood and death in Vietnam and protests against that war were becoming more frequent features of the evening network news ...