Walter Cronkite
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Via camera phone, satellite uplink and YouTube upload, we got pictures and sound of the upheaval in Libya up to the minute. The golden gun (its now-deceased owner must have watched James Bond’s Gold Finger), the Club Car and female bodyguards. When I was growing up, we were cooped up inside the house (curfew) while news of…
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The list goes on and on. As if they could fit another Vietnam War memorial wall, but this one, for broadcasting. Someone observes that on campus, the dorm lounge during news hour is a quietest place to make a phone call. I still remember when Peter Jennings, Frank Reynolds and Max Robinson shared the ABC newscast. NBC…