One last thing the eulogies of Walter Cronkite reminded me of during these past few days was that he was the last journalist which everyone took what he said as gospel. That when he reported on the news, those were the facts, and to dispute it would be heresy.
Good. Journalists make mistakes. Some are biased, some push an agenda, but most simply err like everyone else. When someone sits in a cable news studio, talking over a looped clip of a tragedy that just happened a thousand miles away, do viewers believe that person's assessment? Or do they realize that 24 hours is a lot of time to fill each day and that person is just doing a job? I hope it's the latter.
The quicker we move away from an authoritative voice recapping the day's events, the better. News is far from black and white.
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If you wanted your eulogies in 140 characters or less, here you go.
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