“Would Walter have cut through the noise of “the blogs, tweets and soundbites” to get the facts? I think the answer is yes.”

Yesterday's memorial to the American broadcaster Walter Cronkite featured a medium that I am sure would have been alien to the veteran

As CJR reports

TVNewser kept us up to date this morning by live-tweeting the Walter Cronkite memorial service at Lincoln Center. Besides breathlessly reporting on the veritable “who’s who” of broadcast journalism in attendance, TVNewser noted President Barack Obama’s remarks before Obama jetted off to Washington D.C. to give his healthcare address tonight at 8 p.m.