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Walter Cronkite - On his "that's the way it is" signoff

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Walter Cronkite was interviewed for the Archive of American Television in 1998. In this excerpt from his 4-hour interview available at http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/walter-cronkite , he explains the origin of "That's the way it is"-- his signature sign-off on the CBS Evening News.

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  • Today, the signoff would be "And that's what we want you to think."

  • Walter Cronkite is reporting the news in heaven tonight! God bless him and his family.

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  • Haha, this is great. Bunch of nameless shithead internet users all heaping crap on Cronkite, when not a man of them could do his job.

  • @lesliekorshak Hey wait a minute bud!

  • what a load... Huntley and Brinkley had the natural "good night Chet; Good night David" as well as the ratings and 'Old Ironpants' wanted something to top them. That was never the way it was... that was 22 minutes of a world filled with events in need of covering. It was arrogant, assumptive and the country bought it.

  • @smiday1097 That remains to be seen. What is certain is that there are a lot dead American soldiers in heaven because of pathological narcissists like him.

  • Walter forgets the most famous network news sign-off line ever: "Goodnight Chet" "Goodnight David. And goodnight from NBC News".

    BTW, Both Huntley and Brinkley HATED that line! Brinkley said "It makes us sound like a couple of fags!". They were told "Come up with something better." They couldn't.

  • He was the newscaster for an entire generation or 2 or 3

  • I miss Walter Cronkite he was a vary good news man

  • Walter Cronkite was a communist Walter Cronkite committed Treason against America! Walter Cronkite, was a very BAD MAN indeed!

  • My main man Walt!!! I remember as a kid growing up in South Memphis in the early 70's i would watch you, Roger Mudd, Eric Severeid, and Dan Rather. I will never forget you. RIP

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