The man who defined what it meant to be a television anchorman died Friday evening. He was 92.Walter Cronkite - the most trusted man in America - saw and reported on it all: from the assassination of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, to the Viet Nam War to the lunar landings, Cronkite calmly but not unemotionally delivered the news in a way that defined avuncular.
It's fitting that CBS does the obit.
More here from Commentary Magazine.
Update: From The Wall Street Journal. With a video tribute.
As anchorman of "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981, Mr. Cronkite elevated the role of television news presenter from a script reader to that arbiter of truth called an anchorman.
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