If you were young and had difficulty understanding Sevareid, it was by design. He didn't "dumb down" his phrasing; he never spoke down to his listeners or readers. He spoke to them as they were: adults. If we're saddened by the loss of that in reporting today, it's because of what we've come to expect...only one of many unfortunate symptoms of what we've become.
WHATT A CLASS ACT. NOW LOOK AT THE YOUNG PUNKS ON TV WHO HAVE NO EXPERIENCE OR WISDOM. GOD FORBID THEY SHOULD HAVE A GRAY HAIR. OH HOW I MISS THE GOOD OLD DAYS. WHAT HAS THIS COUNTRY AND WORLD COME TO? GOD BLESS YOU MR. SEVAREID!
They talked up to us back then...Challenging us to understand our own world...Leaving us the task of making up our own minds...Today so many want to be told what to think...And accept whatever they have absorbed from a self appointed wise man as the gospel truth...Never bothering to question the motivation behind the words of "wisdom" that they have been given.
Wow, just wow. I was only three when this aired. This very eloquently drives home the point of just how far we have fallen, journalism specifically and our entire culture in general. I have now seen the problem, and the problem is us.
He took himself too seriously, but I admit I watched him along with Howard K. Smith.
In a way it's sad that NONE of the networks have this type of commentary anymore for fear of offending anyone. Today it's a stupid show with as Walter Cronkite once remarked , " pretty boy news readers." Sadly there are now 'pretty girl news readers.'
Thank you for sharing this excellent video clip. As always, his words seem to flow like a stream of water building into a mighty river. The viewer comments posted below reveal what a treasure he was. Thanks again.
Is there anyone that even comes close to what Eric Sevareid said in just three minutes? Oh, what has happened to journalism? A dumbing down, I would say. Perhaps, one day, we will return once again to the days of the giants, when a new generation of Eric Sevareids will grace the airwaves.
Eric Sevareid, Ed Murrow, Howard K. Smith...these were giants of intellect and integrity...followed by the pygmies of Beck, Hannity, and Olberman. How desperately sad for us all.
@witness2history What u sa is so sadly tru! However, hav u LISTENED 2 "Coast-to-Coast-AM" on the RADIO? Ge Noory, Art Bell, Ian Punnet & other hosts of this sho aren't Sevareid, Morrow, or Smith...but
they do their interviews w guests w grace, intelligence & charm. Check out the C-t-C website! It's amazing! My motto: T golden age of radio s ofr,,,but w Coast2CoastAM, the PLATINIUM age of radio is alive, well....and here!
I agree that Sevareid is a pillar of integrity, but if you are going to talk about intellectual pygmies, you also have to include idiots like Keith Olberman and the trash at MSNBC you so admire....especially that butch dyke...I can't remember her name because she is so inconsequential.
@gootenslog Did you even read my post, or were you so eager to launch a rant that you just did so without making the effort? I listed Olberman as a pygmy and offered no praise for MSNBC. I consider Olberman and Hannity, Beck and Rachel Maddow to all be propagandists masquerading as journalists. I don't care for such an approach from the left or right. And, sadly, name calling has replaced thoughtful discourse.
You may be right that I was ready to launch my rant. I did not see that idiot Olberman listed. I hate him and Maddow....they prove everything that is living proof that American journalism is dead.
As a kid growing up in the sixties and seventies I remember watching the CBS evening news every nite with my family during the dinner hour. No journalist ever left such an impression on me as Mr Sevareid. I would listen to his commentaries realizing each and every word had been given the greatest care and thought. When I see these hacks on TV today, Anderson Cooper, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, O"reilly, Chris Mathews,Rachel maddow etc. I sadly realize the best of American journalism is behind us.
Wow... I remember when the american news audience was talked to intelligently. Now it's like someone is reading People Magazine, or items of interest from Newsweek. News is written horribly. I wonder how many broadcasters can actually write an essay? This makes me truly sad.
Those were intelligent words of wisdom they were men, mature wise, real men. Unlike the proliferation of these bias, sensationalist fatheads on the tele that runs so rampet now. The old ones spoke to the intellect not to the igorant. We need these types of journalist now, more than ever.
Derryk1, you may have written this better no one could say it better. We are beset by hacks in politics and the demigogues who glorify them. Gone are the statesmen, gone are those who spun wisdom, replaced by those who can only spin. We are the losers.
Thanks for posting this, an acquaintance found it in response to the passing of Walter Cronkite, probably the last newsman we will ever trust as we once did. RIP Walter, I'll never forget when I was 8 years old and you wiped a tear from your face upon the death of our beloved JFK. My innocence died that day. What a classy, distinguished man Cronkite was, a journalist's journalist, the most trust man in America. We need more like Walter today.
Thanks for sharing. A treasured writer/journalist form the best days of network broadcast news. Younger people interested in serious news and opinion editorial do not know what they are missing nowadays.
Having worked in journalistic settings at times in the past, I have to say, the days of integrity are gone. It's all about ratings, who buys the ads, etc. for the most part. Sure there are some journalists who go the extra distance but management dictates how & what gets reported, plus the fact that everything is managed by PR people too. What a loss to all of us that journalism isn't what it was. We only hear what is fed to the news media, unless we dig deeper &find alternative news sources.
Thanks for posting. Very insightful -- perhaps among the most worthy 1% of items on YouTube. CBS News used to follow standards that were promulgated by Richard Salant, one-time president of CBS News. For example, note that Walter Cronkite refers to the "CBS Evening News" in this clip as a "broadcast" (not a "program" or "show") -- that was one of Salant's standards.
Oh god this clip depresses me. TV journalism, at least at the network level, was really something else back then. It's sad to look back and see what we've lost.
"To remember that ignorant and biased reporting has its counterpart in ignorant and biased reading and listening; we do not speak into an intellectual or emotional void."
(The Late) Eric Sevareid did his job with the utmost in terms of integrity and fairness to the viewers. Brilliant Clip!! A Solid 6!! He was one of the more underrated journalists in our time. Nobody did the job better than him back in November 1977.
"To elucidate....more than advocate.". That should be every journalist's creed. Sadly, we see and hear the exact opposite in today's print and television reporting. Alas.
He was the epitemy of news broadcasters, a mold that so many followed and were the better for it. Eric actaully portrayed himself in the move "The Right Stuff" We lost not only a great journalist but a wonderful man when Eric died of stomach cancer on July 9, 1992. Rest in peace Eric. The world of newsbroadcasting will never be the same.
As a little boy, before I was old enough to follow what he was saying, the voice and seriousness of Eric Sevareid's commentaries came across with a God-like sagacity.
Although this is his last commentary, it sounds just like Sevareid's others, straightforward and free of sentiment -- surprising for his last regular broadcast.
Another thing that jumps out is the quality of the writing, from him and from Cronkite in his coda. We don't hear that level of writing in TV news anymore.
Regarding the quality of writing at CBS News in that era, transcripts of all CBS News broadcasts from that time are available at some college libraries. It is obvious from reading them that CBS News had very high standards. Transcripts of the "CBS Evening News," for example, carefully note the subtle changes in wording between the 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. broadcasts. Even into the early Dan Rather era, the "CBS Evening News" was carefully written - very respectful of viewers' time & intelligence.
This was sevareid's last show because years ago corporations had a manditory retirement rule when one turned 65..or maybe eric felt it was time to retire..
Eric Sevareid was a newscaster and an unbiased one. His niece Sally Sevareid works at KOOL in Palm Beach, FL. But that's about all remaining of the Sevareid era. Can you picture today's "unbiased" journalists saying what Sevareid said about Eldridge Cleaver in one clip I saw? The problem isn't O'Reilly and Limbaugh; it's their predecessors, working undre the shield of the Fairness Doctrine, who undid Sevareid's work.
Eric Severeid was a class act and was everything that today's newsreaders are not.
Nowadays we are treated to the spectacle of imbeciles like Michael Moore, Bill O'Reilly and worst of all, the big fat idiot who is wrong about everything, Rush Limbaugh.
This is the epitome of what a newscast WAS. Today's local, cable and network newscasts are a 'production' that might as well be produced by the respective network's entertainment division. Linger Longer!
I am reading the Joseph Persico bio of Ed Murrow now (Aug 08) and I can't help but wonder where tv news went wrong.I grew up with WATERGATE,and the many hours of coverage, all explained by people generally trained and hired away from print journalism, with an eye for detail and a good follow-up question. Then in 1976, the Chayevsky film NETWORK. I see the lunacy that television has become. Chayevsky's prediction has come true. Stay awake people or you'll miss the commercials for the revolution.
What the hell has been stuffed into our TV sets? Now, seeing something like this these days in TV would be nothing but a pipe dream. Tim Russert was the closest I've seen to this guy, but now he's gone too...
Stunning. The substance here is overwhelming, especially when compared to the silly screaming anchors and fighting guests that often characterize current "newscasts." Wow, what a giant this man was. So beautifully said. So wonderful that we have this on video. Thank you so much for posting.
During this election year I find myself searching for journalists who are intelligent, honest, direct, decent and kind.
Eric Severeid came to mind. I miss his candor. He always challenged his listeners to cling to his words, to ponder, to decide, to respond. His delivery style conveyed respect for his listeners' intelligence. I miss him - there are none like him. Sad for us!
Wow. I remember that broadcast on KDFW in Dallas back in the day. I watched it in my parents' bedroom at the age of 11 while mom was in the kitchen watching ABC. Cronkite and Sevareid together were part of CBS' proud history.
I think I remember this; I was certainly old enough at the time. Thanks for posting. Wonder what his reaction to the rise of the blogosphere would have been...
THIS man will be continually replaced by vapid, gleaming teeth, spouting their sensationalistic and grammatically inaccurate "profiles" (neé "reports"), effectively and handily destroying broadcast journalism. THIS... this is indeed a sad era.
THIS is veneration. THIS is what the newsmedia has lost sight of. THIS is a lesson to be learned by every journalist in the profession. THIS is their beacon, their North Star. THIS... this is lost. Forever. The last vestige of journalistic excellence will die with Bob Shieffer, the only remaining icon of his ilk.
Absolutely amazing. To see this clip is like a glass of icewater to a man burning in hell. His Eminence Cronkite honoring the irreplaceable Severeid. This clip is the complete antithesis of everything that airs today on television. THIS is what it's about.
If you were young and had difficulty understanding Sevareid, it was by design. He didn't "dumb down" his phrasing; he never spoke down to his listeners or readers. He spoke to them as they were: adults. If we're saddened by the loss of that in reporting today, it's because of what we've come to expect...only one of many unfortunate symptoms of what we've become.
laronmaron98 1 month ago
Thank you very much for your work in sharing this treasure with us!
--Shane Whisler, "clergy-journalist"
eboctr 3 months ago
GREAT MAN!!!
jsteptoe36 4 months ago
Learned, intelligent, to the point commentating. Something sadly lacking in these "reality tv" times.
rever65 4 months ago
WHATT A CLASS ACT. NOW LOOK AT THE YOUNG PUNKS ON TV WHO HAVE NO EXPERIENCE OR WISDOM. GOD FORBID THEY SHOULD HAVE A GRAY HAIR. OH HOW I MISS THE GOOD OLD DAYS. WHAT HAS THIS COUNTRY AND WORLD COME TO? GOD BLESS YOU MR. SEVAREID!
FriedrichKling 7 months ago 2
The viewers no longer have the patience for such eloquent English. We are much the poorer for that.
stevevandien 7 months ago
I listened to him when I was younger. I never understood a word he said.
catholicpriest1 8 months ago
They talked up to us back then...Challenging us to understand our own world...Leaving us the task of making up our own minds...Today so many want to be told what to think...And accept whatever they have absorbed from a self appointed wise man as the gospel truth...Never bothering to question the motivation behind the words of "wisdom" that they have been given.
dburr13 10 months ago
Exceptional. I miss them, even as I've never known them.
surprisedcabbage 11 months ago
Wow, just wow. I was only three when this aired. This very eloquently drives home the point of just how far we have fallen, journalism specifically and our entire culture in general. I have now seen the problem, and the problem is us.
SupaT1969 1 year ago 2
My God do I miss broadcasters of Mr. Sevareid caliber now look at the clowns we have on TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FriedrichKling 1 year ago 4
every anchor in the news business today should watch this video...
MrBassplayer3 1 year ago
One of the best ever. I loved watching Eric.
gingerbread1231 1 year ago
He took himself too seriously, but I admit I watched him along with Howard K. Smith.
In a way it's sad that NONE of the networks have this type of commentary anymore for fear of offending anyone. Today it's a stupid show with as Walter Cronkite once remarked , " pretty boy news readers." Sadly there are now 'pretty girl news readers.'
bikr0 1 year ago
@bikr0
Including the most worthless "pretty girl reader" of all. Katie couric is a waste of space and breath.
gootenslog 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing this excellent video clip. As always, his words seem to flow like a stream of water building into a mighty river. The viewer comments posted below reveal what a treasure he was. Thanks again.
SlimDudley 2 years ago
Is there anyone that even comes close to what Eric Sevareid said in just three minutes? Oh, what has happened to journalism? A dumbing down, I would say. Perhaps, one day, we will return once again to the days of the giants, when a new generation of Eric Sevareids will grace the airwaves.
chrisman737 2 years ago 2
Eric Sevareid - one of the greatest Americans ever produced by Norwegian parents! :)
filmidioten 2 years ago 9
Eric Sevareid, Ed Murrow, Howard K. Smith...these were giants of intellect and integrity...followed by the pygmies of Beck, Hannity, and Olberman. How desperately sad for us all.
witness2history 2 years ago 25
@witness2history What u sa is so sadly tru! However, hav u LISTENED 2 "Coast-to-Coast-AM" on the RADIO? Ge Noory, Art Bell, Ian Punnet & other hosts of this sho aren't Sevareid, Morrow, or Smith...but
they do their interviews w guests w grace, intelligence & charm. Check out the C-t-C website! It's amazing! My motto: T golden age of radio s ofr,,,but w Coast2CoastAM, the PLATINIUM age of radio is alive, well....and here!
UTAOUB 2 years ago
@witness2history
I agree that Sevareid is a pillar of integrity, but if you are going to talk about intellectual pygmies, you also have to include idiots like Keith Olberman and the trash at MSNBC you so admire....especially that butch dyke...I can't remember her name because she is so inconsequential.
gootenslog 1 year ago
@gootenslog Did you even read my post, or were you so eager to launch a rant that you just did so without making the effort? I listed Olberman as a pygmy and offered no praise for MSNBC. I consider Olberman and Hannity, Beck and Rachel Maddow to all be propagandists masquerading as journalists. I don't care for such an approach from the left or right. And, sadly, name calling has replaced thoughtful discourse.
witness2history 1 year ago
@witness2history
You may be right that I was ready to launch my rant. I did not see that idiot Olberman listed. I hate him and Maddow....they prove everything that is living proof that American journalism is dead.
gootenslog 1 year ago
@gootenslog And all of the worthless cocksuckers at FOX. Don't forget the cocksuckers at FOX, Mr. Patriot. Ok?
Fucking asshole.
rayjr62 1 year ago
@rayjr62
Bite me.
gootenslog 1 year ago
@gootenslog Yeah. Fuck you and the worthless whore who gave you birth.
rayjr62 1 year ago
@rayjr62
Me thinks that you are looking in the mirror, you vulgar illiterate.
gootenslog 1 year ago
@rayjr62 You are an enemy of Christ!
salinagrrrl69 1 year ago
As a kid growing up in the sixties and seventies I remember watching the CBS evening news every nite with my family during the dinner hour. No journalist ever left such an impression on me as Mr Sevareid. I would listen to his commentaries realizing each and every word had been given the greatest care and thought. When I see these hacks on TV today, Anderson Cooper, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, O"reilly, Chris Mathews,Rachel maddow etc. I sadly realize the best of American journalism is behind us.
myboylollipop09 2 years ago 2
I was lucky enough to meet Mr.Sevaried..A real radio &
tv newscaster and a kindly and caring gentleman..a person
that we will never see again..(Crying)Goodbye Eric!
143AC 2 years ago 13
Wow... I remember when the american news audience was talked to intelligently. Now it's like someone is reading People Magazine, or items of interest from Newsweek. News is written horribly. I wonder how many broadcasters can actually write an essay? This makes me truly sad.
xenabee 2 years ago 14
As Peggy Noonan of the WSJ just tweeted: "Look how people used to talk on TV." Indeed... comparing this to today's pablum is really an eye-opener.
cvkline 2 years ago 26
As a fellow broadcaster, I thank you for this gem from one of the true giants and a class act in our business.
dougalmac54 2 years ago 14
Those were intelligent words of wisdom they were men, mature wise, real men. Unlike the proliferation of these bias, sensationalist fatheads on the tele that runs so rampet now. The old ones spoke to the intellect not to the igorant. We need these types of journalist now, more than ever.
derryk1 2 years ago 14
Derryk1, you may have written this better no one could say it better. We are beset by hacks in politics and the demigogues who glorify them. Gone are the statesmen, gone are those who spun wisdom, replaced by those who can only spin. We are the losers.
Bluesky821 2 years ago 11
I would recommend to anyone, Eric Sevareid's autobiography, "Not So Wild a Dream". An exceptually well written account of an exceptual life.
martyr3x 2 years ago 5
This comment has received too many negative votes show
I never knew what the hell he was talking about.
borch1260 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this, an acquaintance found it in response to the passing of Walter Cronkite, probably the last newsman we will ever trust as we once did. RIP Walter, I'll never forget when I was 8 years old and you wiped a tear from your face upon the death of our beloved JFK. My innocence died that day. What a classy, distinguished man Cronkite was, a journalist's journalist, the most trust man in America. We need more like Walter today.
Ermengarde11 2 years ago 4
We should be so lucky to have a man like this on the news today. Eh, Katie?
MrCkdisout 2 years ago
No one before or since has done what Mr. Sevaried can do. A great and smart man.
dandydonaldo 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing. A treasured writer/journalist form the best days of network broadcast news. Younger people interested in serious news and opinion editorial do not know what they are missing nowadays.
reva12 2 years ago
Having worked in journalistic settings at times in the past, I have to say, the days of integrity are gone. It's all about ratings, who buys the ads, etc. for the most part. Sure there are some journalists who go the extra distance but management dictates how & what gets reported, plus the fact that everything is managed by PR people too. What a loss to all of us that journalism isn't what it was. We only hear what is fed to the news media, unless we dig deeper &find alternative news sources.
Ermengarde11 2 years ago 9
Thanks for posting. Very insightful -- perhaps among the most worthy 1% of items on YouTube. CBS News used to follow standards that were promulgated by Richard Salant, one-time president of CBS News. For example, note that Walter Cronkite refers to the "CBS Evening News" in this clip as a "broadcast" (not a "program" or "show") -- that was one of Salant's standards.
jaybee1973jaybee 2 years ago
Oh god this clip depresses me. TV journalism, at least at the network level, was really something else back then. It's sad to look back and see what we've lost.
nakamichiguy 2 years ago 7
The. Best. Writer. In. Television. News. Ever. Period. End. Of. Story.
mythcrusher 3 years ago 9
"To remember that ignorant and biased reporting has its counterpart in ignorant and biased reading and listening; we do not speak into an intellectual or emotional void."
Words of wisdom, indeed.
PundittyProject 3 years ago 4
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PundittyProject 3 years ago
Bill Murray did a hilarious impersonation of this on SNL.
billga2007 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Eric Sevareid was also a racist who didn't have a problem voicing his dogmatic political views.
pachacutti 3 years ago
And this was BEFORE I was born on 12/06/1977. And I grew up with Cronkite, Rather, Brokaw, Jennings, etc., when they anchored the news.
SailorCallie 3 years ago
(The Late) Eric Sevareid did his job with the utmost in terms of integrity and fairness to the viewers. Brilliant Clip!! A Solid 6!! He was one of the more underrated journalists in our time. Nobody did the job better than him back in November 1977.
Green18600 3 years ago 5
"To elucidate....more than advocate.". That should be every journalist's creed. Sadly, we see and hear the exact opposite in today's print and television reporting. Alas.
mythcrusher 3 years ago 3
He was the epitemy of news broadcasters, a mold that so many followed and were the better for it. Eric actaully portrayed himself in the move "The Right Stuff" We lost not only a great journalist but a wonderful man when Eric died of stomach cancer on July 9, 1992. Rest in peace Eric. The world of newsbroadcasting will never be the same.
XMLarry 3 years ago 2
I never understood what the hell he was saying.
borch1260 3 years ago
I never understood what the hell he was saying.
borch1260 3 years ago
I wish more Sevareid commentary could be posted on You Tube, particularly ones about Vietnam and Watergate.
groovezog88 3 years ago 2
I agree. CBS News or the rare citizen who has video or audio recordings should do so.
jaybee1973jaybee 2 years ago
As a little boy, before I was old enough to follow what he was saying, the voice and seriousness of Eric Sevareid's commentaries came across with a God-like sagacity.
Although this is his last commentary, it sounds just like Sevareid's others, straightforward and free of sentiment -- surprising for his last regular broadcast.
Another thing that jumps out is the quality of the writing, from him and from Cronkite in his coda. We don't hear that level of writing in TV news anymore.
DesiluTrek 3 years ago
Regarding the quality of writing at CBS News in that era, transcripts of all CBS News broadcasts from that time are available at some college libraries. It is obvious from reading them that CBS News had very high standards. Transcripts of the "CBS Evening News," for example, carefully note the subtle changes in wording between the 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. broadcasts. Even into the early Dan Rather era, the "CBS Evening News" was carefully written - very respectful of viewers' time & intelligence.
jaybee1973jaybee 2 years ago 2
How true!
Local Fox affiliates are obviously unfamiliar with such practices.
1more4theroad 2 years ago 2
One of the last great journalist voices on TV. Seeing this reminds me of the vapid, unprofessional dreck passed off as network news today.
Sevareid, Reasoner, Huntley-Brinkley, Murrow, Frank Reynolds...we shall not see the like of them again.
JohnLeeJohnLee 3 years ago 5
Thanks for posting this historic clip.
crepehanger47 3 years ago 3
I could never understand what the hell he was saying. :)
catholicpriest1 3 years ago
Why is this his last brodcast???
moviedudeinc 3 years ago
Moviedudeinc,
This was sevareid's last show because years ago corporations had a manditory retirement rule when one turned 65..or maybe eric felt it was time to retire..
roon41 3 years ago
Sevareid retired literally *days* after turning 65 years old.
walterdufresne 3 years ago
Eric Sevareid was a newscaster and an unbiased one. His niece Sally Sevareid works at KOOL in Palm Beach, FL. But that's about all remaining of the Sevareid era. Can you picture today's "unbiased" journalists saying what Sevareid said about Eldridge Cleaver in one clip I saw? The problem isn't O'Reilly and Limbaugh; it's their predecessors, working undre the shield of the Fairness Doctrine, who undid Sevareid's work.
wkat950 3 years ago 4
Eric Severeid was a class act and was everything that today's newsreaders are not.
Nowadays we are treated to the spectacle of imbeciles like Michael Moore, Bill O'Reilly and worst of all, the big fat idiot who is wrong about everything, Rush Limbaugh.
How very sad. We deserve much better.
fritz43 3 years ago 4
This is the epitome of what a newscast WAS. Today's local, cable and network newscasts are a 'production' that might as well be produced by the respective network's entertainment division. Linger Longer!
ttugarygregory 3 years ago
I am reading the Joseph Persico bio of Ed Murrow now (Aug 08) and I can't help but wonder where tv news went wrong.I grew up with WATERGATE,and the many hours of coverage, all explained by people generally trained and hired away from print journalism, with an eye for detail and a good follow-up question. Then in 1976, the Chayevsky film NETWORK. I see the lunacy that television has become. Chayevsky's prediction has come true. Stay awake people or you'll miss the commercials for the revolution.
paladin520 3 years ago
What the hell has been stuffed into our TV sets? Now, seeing something like this these days in TV would be nothing but a pipe dream. Tim Russert was the closest I've seen to this guy, but now he's gone too...
falconwings1982 3 years ago 2
I remember this night. I watched. I knew it was the beginnning of the end of an era. But who could have predicted how far we could have fallen?
God, forgive us.
joeyjojo4 3 years ago 3
Stunning. The substance here is overwhelming, especially when compared to the silly screaming anchors and fighting guests that often characterize current "newscasts." Wow, what a giant this man was. So beautifully said. So wonderful that we have this on video. Thank you so much for posting.
chrisman737 3 years ago 2
During this election year I find myself searching for journalists who are intelligent, honest, direct, decent and kind.
Eric Severeid came to mind. I miss his candor. He always challenged his listeners to cling to his words, to ponder, to decide, to respond. His delivery style conveyed respect for his listeners' intelligence. I miss him - there are none like him. Sad for us!
Marti4161 3 years ago 2
How many of the younger set watching this clip understood at least half of what he said?
GoodsonTodman 3 years ago
Wow. I remember that broadcast on KDFW in Dallas back in the day. I watched it in my parents' bedroom at the age of 11 while mom was in the kitchen watching ABC. Cronkite and Sevareid together were part of CBS' proud history.
case139 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Tbis is back when the liberal mainstream media was unquestioned. Thank God for Rush!
fruticetum 3 years ago
I think I remember this; I was certainly old enough at the time. Thanks for posting. Wonder what his reaction to the rise of the blogosphere would have been...
TheSanityInspector 4 years ago
THIS man will be continually replaced by vapid, gleaming teeth, spouting their sensationalistic and grammatically inaccurate "profiles" (neé "reports"), effectively and handily destroying broadcast journalism. THIS... this is indeed a sad era.
Tre404 4 years ago 3
THIS is veneration. THIS is what the newsmedia has lost sight of. THIS is a lesson to be learned by every journalist in the profession. THIS is their beacon, their North Star. THIS... this is lost. Forever. The last vestige of journalistic excellence will die with Bob Shieffer, the only remaining icon of his ilk.
Tre404 4 years ago 5
Absolutely amazing. To see this clip is like a glass of icewater to a man burning in hell. His Eminence Cronkite honoring the irreplaceable Severeid. This clip is the complete antithesis of everything that airs today on television. THIS is what it's about.
Tre404 4 years ago 5
Because in the beginning with people such as Sevareid, what counted was the WORD...not the flashy picture.
davemock 4 years ago 2
Arnold Eric Sevareid (November 26, 1912 -- July 9, 1992)...one of the true greats.
AarHan3 4 years ago 2