Cronkite Out
July 17th, 2009 by Red Renee
According to reports, newsman Walter Cronkite passed away today at the age of 92. Cronkite is already getting the Michael Jackson treatment with wall-to-wall coverage on all the major cable news networks.
As has already been mentioned about 45 times on Fox News, the term “anchorman” originated with Walter Cronkite. As the story goes (aka Wikipedia)- the term was coined by producer Don Hewitt in response to Cronkite’s coverage of the 1952 Republican and Democrat national conventions.
In that spirit, here’s to you anchorman:
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