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<\/a>\nWalter Cronkite, 1916 – 2009<\/b><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n
On a personal note… Aside from the obvious reminder that Cronkite’s death offers about what the news media were once — but no more — all about…<\/i> I had a brief chance meeting with Cronkite years ago when, in the late 80’s, I was working as an in-store demonstrator for a new board game<\/a> over Christmas. He was shopping at the great flagship FAO Schwarz<\/a> toy store on 5th Ave. in New York City.<\/p>\n Even then, some twenty years ago, he seemed surprisingly frail to me. Don’t know whether it was because I’d only seen him on TV decades earlier or not. As I recall, I demo’d the game with him and beat him (I had quickly become an expert at the game for all of the hours I’d spent playing it with shoppers, even beating the inventor of the game when I’d met him one day). Cronkite, if I remember correctly, bought a couple of the games for his grandkids or nephews that day.<\/p>\n Not a particularly insightful story, other than for me, at that time in my life, I felt as if I had been in the presence of greatness. It was certainly the highlight of my holidays that year. He will be missed. So will the once-great American news corp which he left, and which left all of us, too long ago. Walter Cronkite, 1916 – 2009 On a personal note… Aside from the obvious reminder that Cronkite’s death offers about what the news media were once — but no more — all about… I had a brief chance meeting with Cronkite years ago when, in the late 80’s, I was working as an in-store demonstrator for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nUPDATE:<\/strong> For more thoughts along those expressed in the last sentence above, and video, etc. we’re happy to associate ourselves with Jill’s take over at Brilliant at Breakfast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"