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

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/intervie... , he explains the origin of "That's the way it is"-- his signature sign-off on the CBS Evening News.

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[mediamadman747]

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

[DURound]

Good Gracious!!!

What integrity they had compared with today!

They were concerned that they would mislead people by saying "That's the way it is". And they knew it wasn't right.

News has changed.

[moneyquickeasy]

Shit, that was 4 years ago when you wrote that comment. Now it's even worse.

[CamiloSanchez1979]

and that's the way it was..and that's the way i like it ..uhu uhu uhu....

[leopoldletrange17]

Still a lot of people feel wrong about stuff the news stations they work for say . . . take a look at the recent projects involving Olbermann.

[john5bestfan]

Mine is: From all of us here at Barney's apartment,get out.

[Zebonka]

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.

[Leslie Korshak]

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.

[MegaObserver1]

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. 

[magnumshifter]

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

[ben opala]

I miss Walter Cronkite he was a vary good news man

[CHATROOMMUSIC]

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