{"id":585,"date":"2009-07-23T13:01:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T11:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fascinating-america.com\/blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2015-04-27T21:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T19:08:14","slug":"the-most-trusted-man-in-america-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fascinating-america.com\/blog\/the-most-trusted-man-in-america-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"The most trusted man in America is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer seems like it’s been the summer of death. The Grim Reaper<\/span> has claimed<\/span> one of Charlie’s Angels<\/a>, a 50-year-old kid<\/a> who’d held a baby out a window, a defense secretary<\/a> who’d been responsible for the Vietnam War, and an Irish-American author<\/a> who, in old age, was still complaining about his awful childhood. Now the most trusted man in America has joined them.<\/p>\n

I’m not talking about Barack Obama, or Roger Ebert<\/a>, or Bill Gates. (They’re all still alive.) No, it was a 92-year-old named Walter Cronkite<\/b>. For 30 years in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, “the Cronk” was the face of the evening news. He’d put on his reading glasses and tell it like it was.<\/p>\n