The Pentagon and the military done just what the Veitcong expected them to do, and that was they (the pentagon and military) would lie to the people and divide them. Isn't someone or insitution that knows the truth and lie's to themselfs or it's self a whore? Well ok, in this case a corporate whore (Dow Chemical) you know napalm. I do not think the military forgave the media for exposing the truth. If we are the best and so great why do they ( the military) always have to cover themselfs with stinky bullshit in hopes of getting mmessage out. Ok kids your the best and greatest now get on out there and defend the rich mans freedom or corporate america will not give you a job grilling hambergs as if they wouldn't anyway. Well do not worry vets corporate america will build more prisons for you, and create some more obease dickheads in lowquarters to guard you, Mr Reagans dream ( he's a drustore truckdriven man). Walter Cronkite could have done better, but at least he did no harm, not like the big media of today.

Mr. Greenwald,

You have said what I have observed for years, had strongly suspected, yet had not wanted to believe: that the vast majority-- say, 99.2%-- of the stuff we get from the mainstream media is bullshit. Lies made of whole cloth. The worst kind of self-deception.

And while you're invoking Cronkite, let's not forget a huge disservice he did, and then repeated, over the years. He refused to even the consider the possibility that anyone other than Lee Oswald was involved in murdering John F. Kennedy. Whether or not you believe that Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy is irrelevant; what's relevant is that Cronkite acted as poster boy for the government line that said, "Keep moving, keep moving, nothing to see here, just a lone nut with a gun, move along now." Plenty of good forensic, photographic and FOIA stuff has been unearthed over the years to show something was mighty rotten with the Warren Commission's conclusion. Yet Cronkite went right along with it, for whatever reason.

As you point out: a journalist is doing his or her best work when they're NEVER invited to cocktail parties in Washington.

because I don't want to tell my dad and all this honorable German journalists as his next birthday that their 'striving for objectivity' is some kind of...hoax? -

They already think I'm crazy! - and would would Glenn say" He would have to write another

post about:Celebrating Cronkite while IGNORING what he did!!

Glenn - I was pleased by your inclusion of the whitewash of Dr. King's legacy and radical activism in opposition to racism, war, inequality, poverty, and materialism- but disappointed that (after reading all the comments) that no one here expanded upon that. I have posted excerpts and links to that speech here several times.

I get a lot more pissed of by the perversion of King's legacy - and I think that is far more historically, politically, and socially meaningful - than the distortion of the careers various journalists and celebrities. Those individuals only seem important in light of history - for example, the only interesting commentary here is on Cronkite's reporting on Vietnam.

Just Curious - is there no interest in King out there?

These people really are maniacs...

Podohertz thinks that if there had been an internet back in 68 Cronkite's "lies" would have been exposed.

It's a fallacy of course, if the internet were the cure for lies; Commentary Magazine and people like Podohertz would cease to exist.

Walter Cronkite, RIP

John Podhoretz - 07.17.2009 - 8:50 PM

Cronkite, the gravelly voice of accepted American wisdom, whose comportment suggested he kept his money in bonds and would never even have considered exceeding the speed limit, devastated President Lyndon Johnson in the wake of the 1968 Tet Offensive by declaring that the United States “was mired in stalemate” in Vietnam—when Johnson knew that Tet had been a military triumph.

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Cronkite didn’t know what he was talking about when it came to Tet, as the late Peter Braestrup demonstrated in his colossal expose of the scandalous media coverage of the battle, Big Story. But he knew that among the people who mattered to him, and who were the leading edge of ideological fashion, Tet was a failure because the war in Vietnam was bad, and he took to the airwaves to say so.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/73642

After having the audacity of coming here and saying that prosecuting Bush-era official for torture is "dangerous" and "cable catnip."

So are you going to comment on King's legacy?

I've never understood how someone ancient enough to have been reading Harper's for the passed [sic] forty years could still be a "lad." [sic]

...sort of creepy.

Salon.com is nothing more than a bunch of angry losers upset because they can't succeed in real world and they cloak themselves in a guise of earnest truth seekers while actually living in a fantasy world naively apologizing for all the sins we horrible Americans have perpetrated on the rest of the world.

What do I regret? Well, 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...Cronkite

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."..Glenn.

They have no standards on cable. MSNBC does the best job. PBS does has standards. I cannot stand Tom Brokaw and think he does a miserable job on Meet the Press. You all criticize Russet, but he did his homework and pressed for answers to his questions. I in fact think Chuck Todd would be better for Meet the Press.

After reading your comments about Cronkite, I'm as nauseated as I could I be regarding your self-righteous garbage without vomiting directly onto my P.C. Your words ring hollow and bring to mind that of an individual who uses 20-20 hindsight as the basis for his opinions. did you ever come to a conclusion without waiting to see what happens first?