Essay: Cronkite and the voice of authority gone

Essay: Cronkite and the voice of authority gone - guardian.co.uk

Sun, Jul 19th, 2009

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AP National Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) â?" "And that's the way it is," he'd say.

It wasn't, but we wanted that reassurance. The idea that someone could wrangle the world each night and boil it down to a sensible, digestible half hour was so comforting.

Barely a generation has passed since Walter Cronkite disappeared from our evenings. But the notion of one man â?" a single, authoritative, empathetic man, morally reassuring and mild of temper â?" wrapping up the world after dinner for America seems incalculably quaint in the technological coliseum that is 21st-century communications.

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