Cronkite was the propagandist that lost the war in VN, of course he worked
for CBS rather than CNN, but the C still means the same thing.


"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
news | Matt Whiting wrote:
| Gig601XLBuilder wrote:
| Matt Whiting wrote:
| Marty Shapiro wrote:
| Denny wrote in news:7e60896b-29ad-4df9-b10e-
| :
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| We can snicker all we want at the clueless reporting of a liberal
arts
| major, low man on the totem pole, who gets sent to report on general
| aviation - but how many of us have contacted the paqper and the tv
| station and offered to take the general news reporter(s) flying on a
| saturday afternoon so we can teach them the basics?
|
| denny hand up
|
|
| There was an newscaster in the Bay area many years ago who
| read an report about a GA incident on the air. This report
| contained several factual errors about the incident, among which was
| the picture of a twin for the single engine aircraft involved. The
| irony was he was a well known local pilot. About a week later, he
| MCed an all day safety seminar. The first question asked of him was
| about the factual errors in his report. His response was "I receive
| a 7 figure salary for reading the news that is handed to me by the
| editors. If they give me advance copy and I notice an error, I'll
| point it out to them, but when I'm on the air, I am not going to
| jeapordize my salary by altering what they hand me."
|
| That last statement also pretty much sums of my impression of
| journalistic integrity.
|
| Matt
|
| I tend to agree with you on this but he said, "I receive a 7 figure
| salary for reading the news that is handed to me by the editors." That
| makes him an announcer not a journalist. So in my opinion he is no
| different than an actor on some TV show or movie that reads lines.
|
| You make a good point, but I don't think the general public makes a
| distinction between announcer and journalist and I don't much either.
| The person on the tube is the "face of journalism" to me and I haven't
| been addressed since Cronkite and his generation retired.
|
| That was supposed to be impressed, not addressed! I don't know where
| that came from...
|
| Matt