The Silver Fox is ready for his close-up: On Broadway! CNN’s Anderson Cooper, 43, will make his Broadway debut as the narrator in the latest staging of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, featuring Daniel Radcliffe as J. Pierrepont Finch. Cooper follows in the footsteps of another veteran newsman — late broadcasting icon [...]
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Morgan Freeman Replaces Walter Cronkite As “CBS Evening News†Announcer
January 4th, 2010 |
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Morgan Freeman has replaced late CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite as the voice of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
Cronkite recorded the introduction, played at the beginning of most newscasts, when Katie took over the evening news broadcast in 2006. The iconic journalist’s voice was kept on the air even after his death July [...]
Top 10 Entertainment Stories Of 2009
December 21st, 2009 |
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The death of Michael Jackson, Kanye Hijacking Taylor’s VMA Moment, and the Chris Brown and Rihanna’s Domestic Disturbia were some of the stories that got us talking in 2009, according to The Associated Press. The AP has compiled a list of the Top 10 Entertainment Stories of the Year based on the votes of U.S. [...]
NYT’s Public Editor Explains How 5 Editors Handled Error-Filled Cronkite Story
August 2nd, 2009 |
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THE TIMES published an especially embarrassing correction on July 22, fixing seven errors in a single article �” an appraisal of Walter Cronkite, the CBS anchorman famed for his meticulous reporting. The newspaper had wrong dates for histori…
Mort Rosenblum: Beyond Towering Babble: Good Schools, Real News
July 29th, 2009 |
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The operative part of newspaper is news. If changing tastes prefer something different, why not? But online-only options are not ready, and TV hardly takes up the slack.
Katie Couric Slams NY Times For Error-Filled Walter Cronkite Appraisal
July 25th, 2009 |
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Katie Couric slammed the New York Times for running an error-filled article about CBS News legend Walter Cronkite.
In her “Notebook” on CBSNews.com on Friday, Couric praised the “exuberant and heartfelt tributes” to Cronkite but sharply noted…
Bill Maher: New Rule: Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit
July 24th, 2009 |
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When did the profit motive become the only reason to do anything? When did that become the new patriotism? Ask not what you could do for your country, ask what’s in it for Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
Dean Sluyter: The Dharma of Celebrity Death
July 23rd, 2009 |
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Everybody dies. Why, from a spiritual point of view, are celebrity deaths such an extra big deal?
Michael Carmichael: Kucinich Keeps Single-Payer Alive
July 23rd, 2009 |
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While Americans pay more for their health care than any other nation, more Americans realize that they are not getting their money’s worth.
Murray Fromson: And That’s the Way It Was…
July 22nd, 2009 |
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When I first met Cronkite was a hawk, a supporter of the conflict in Vietnam like so many Americans of his generation. What led to his profound change of heart about the war?
Reese Schonfeld: Three Updates and an Addendum
July 21st, 2009 |
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Every time Dan Rather was on camera, there was an elephant in the room –there is no question that it was Dan Rather who pushed Walter Cronkite out at least a year before he wanted to go.
Craig Bierko: Walter Cronkite To Posthumously Guest Star on “Ghost Whisperer”
July 21st, 2009 |
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Cronkite will play “Alfred Keagan,” a lovable bank security guard who can’t seem to face the loss of his Korean war-bride.
Jarvis Coffin: That’s the way it is (again).
July 21st, 2009 |
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When I heard that Walter Cronkite had died over the weekend I thought, get ready for all the “That’s the way it was” eulogies that…
Dr. Abraham Froman: Farewell Mustachiopithicus
July 20th, 2009 |
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As the dull roar of sadness about the passing of the late, great Walter Cronkite wanes, the administration and faculty of American Mustache Institute wish…
Norman Solomon: Cronkite and Vietnam: Beyond the Hype
July 20th, 2009 |
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Despite the posthumous praise for Cronkite’s February 1968 telecast that dubbed the war “a stalemate,” the facts show that the broadcast came only after Cronkite’s protracted support for the war.
David Makovsky: Excerpt from Myths, Illusions and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East
July 20th, 2009 |
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This is an excerpt from my new book, Myths, Illusions and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East, co-authored with Dennis…