User blog:BJFRacing14/To the man who told the news "the way it was"

If you happen to hit the main Google page, you will note a doodle of Walter Cronkite's moments in the American news medium from the first flight to the moon, to the Kennedy Assasination, to his final goodbye from the CBS Evening News. Well, why would Google make a doodle of Cronkite? It would have been his 100th birthday today, November 4th.

I get it that today's mainstream news medium isn't as cracked up as it used to be, but we would not have found a way to know what it was had Cronkite not been the man behind the desk reporting for CBS. In fact, I'd go on a limb to say that Cronkite WAS CBS News. He was the network's voice of reason, sort of like how Shepard Smith is to FOX, but more direct, succinct and never waivering.

Most of my family's early generation, and I'm sure most of yours as well, grew up with Cronkite reporting the news. He was that storyteller by the fireplace kind of man. And it was evident in his voice talent, too. Like some of you young folks, you may have stumbled upon Liberty's Kids on your local PBS station in the afternoon in 2002 when an animated Ben Franklin was speaking. You may have asked, "Who is voicing this character?" That was Cronkite.

Without Cronkite, we would not have a Dan Rather, a Tom Brokaw, no nothing! Cronkite's visibility in the news and his commitment to tell the story as if you were there was one reason these news anchors' careers were further vaunted. And without Cronkite, there would not have been a Liberty's Kids episode at all. The man was a priceless gem to the general public.

Fictionaltvstations Wikia and the Fandom community-at-large joins the millions who honor his memory. And it is our distinct pleasure and honor to recite the closing line to Cronkite's newscasts: and that's the way it is.