"Market forces on TV news are creating a vacuum that is dangerous to democracy. Most people that get most of their most of their news from TV are inadequately informed and totally uninformed." - Walter Cronkite, during a speech at the Conference on Journalism and Democracy, University of Texas, Friday, 1 October 1999.

Sounds like Wally's a GI.

(No link - transcribed from a radio talk show)

-- a (a@a.a), October 04, 1999

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Amazing!! You deduced Walter Cronkite is a GI from that statement. WOW. That is incredible.

-- (sickofthis@crap.com), October 04, 1999.

a- Good post. Wally tells it like it is. When the herd turns just don't get in the way.................!

-- kevin (innxxs@yahoo.com), October 04, 1999.

Long live the unfettered Internet!
News, entertainment, 1000 opinions to boot, real live Education! :-)

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), October 04, 1999.

The Onion and Walter seem to be in agreement about what folks don't get:

79 Percent of Americans Missing The Point Entirely

http://www.theonion.com/onion3534/missing_the_point.html

-- Donna (moment@pacbell.net), October 04, 1999.

Donna,

Thanks for the article. I knew I wasnt hallucinating!!!

-- David Butts (dciinc@aol.com), October 04, 1999.

Wally may be a GI, be he is also typically characterized as quite a "Progressive" (Socialist for those of you less familiar with PC buzzwords).

-- Anonymous999 (Anonymous999@Anonymous999.xxx), October 04, 1999.

Thanks for the onion Donna.

Here's a little something on topic:

"It is not possible to awaken someone who is pretending to be asleep." An old Navajo proverb.

-- no talking please (breadlines@soupkitchen.gov), October 04, 1999.