Saturday, July 25, 2009

Cronkite's Epitaph

Walter Cronkite was buried Thursday, in front of a gravestone that unfortunately did not read what should be his epitaph:

I regret that in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation.

As Glenn Greenwald writes:

It's impossible even to imagine the likes of Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw and friends interrupting their pompously baritone, melodramatic, self-glorifying exploitation of Cronkite's death to spend a second pondering what he meant by that.

Read the whole thing.

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