“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.

Sad but probably true-there won't be another Cronkite

the accelerating disintegration of the media assures that no one ever will emerge again as a single, almost-universally trusted source of straight-up, down-the-middle information during great moments of national trauma and euphoria – and all the ordinary days in between.

Alan Mutter writes about why there will never be a another Walter Cronkite and I fear that he may well be correct

Today he adds

Audiences today have fragmented among countless cable networks and interactive venues scrambling for ratings and clicks. Like so many petulant toddlers, the vast majority of the modern “news” venues are stomping, screaming and spinning themselves crazy in the hopes of gaining attention.