re: #176 whitebeach

I believe that the real turning point was Walter Cronkite’s commentary on CBS News the night of Feb. 27, 1968. He had just returned from a trip to Vietnam in the wake of the Tet offensive of Jan. of that year, and his editorial, which seems fairly tepid today, basically said that the people running the war had been too optimistic, and that the whole thing was headed for a stalemate. But this opinion was huge at the time. I don’t think that one newsperson before or since has had anything even close to the credibility and authority of Cronkite, and his words brought antiwar sentiment into the center of the mainstream.

There is a Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, but is there any Walter Cronkite today?