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Tango01 | 15 Jul 2016 12:15 p.m. PST |
…a ‘Cronkite Moment' movie?. "Walter Cronkite was months behind media rivals in characterizing the war in Vietnam as a military "stalemate." He shifted his views about the conflict well after public opinion had begun to turn against the war. And Cronkite's reporting for CBS News at supposedly a crucial moment in 1968 was tepid and far less adamant than that of some competing news media. Whether movie director Steven Spielberg is aware of those aspects of the back story to the mythical "Cronkite Moment" of 1968 is not known. But it may matter, given a report from Hollywood that Spielberg is contemplating a movie that effectively would embrace the myths that have grown up around the presumed effects of Cronkite's on-air assessment…" More here link Amicalement Armand |
Mardaddy | 15 Jul 2016 3:56 p.m. PST |
Wait, wait, wait… Conventional wisdom was/is that Cronkite was SO popular and beloved and respected that public opinion was "created" by him, and that it was his tone of the war being all but a lost cause in '68 that MADE public opinion turn. Now talk is that he was a latecomer and popular opinion had already been decided? Is this more rewriting of history? Many of our TMPers were alive to see this, albeit their memories may be skewed due to their teenage years during the actual experience (and the popular teenage tendency to, "me too," at the time.) Anyone???? |
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