“And that’s the way it is”
He was known by some as ‘Old
Ironpants’, ‘Uncle Walter’ and even ‘King of the Anchormen’. Of course I refer
to broadcast journalist Walter Leland Cronkite.
Lead anchor at CBS Evening News for
19 years, he started breaking the boundaries even after a year. He was the
first anchor to have a half-hourly nightly news program in America, expanding
from 15 minutes in September 1963.
When it comes to milestones in
history, you name them and Cronkite has covered them. He was there when news
broke of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. He threw himself into the heart of it
in Vietnam in February of 1968 when executive producer Ernest Leiser and
Cronkite journeyed to Nam to cover Tet Offensive.
In his farewell statement on March
6th 1981 he expressed “I’m not
even going away” rather “I’ll be away
on assignment, and Dan Rather will be sitting in here for the next few years.”
Small Is Beautiful
He started out on a weekly paper in
Tooting, South London with a circulation of 700. Now Tindle Newspapers has
grown to over 220 titles with a weekly readership of more than 1.4 million
generating turnover above £50m.
Sir Raymond Tindle, formerly of the
South West whilst being educated at Torquay Grammar School before moving north
to begin his entrepreneurship. He spent some years in wartime service with
Devonshire Regiment before rattling through various jobs at numerous local
papers until 1972.
1972 saw the birth of Tindle
Newspapers, which now appears in the Newspaper Society’s list of 10 biggest UK
publishers. His philosophy of Small is
Beautiful has driven him to invest in numerous local titles across the UK.
His knighthood in 1994 for
services to the newspaper industry sums up what he means as a journalist.
Constantly spreading news to the people, holding the motto ‘Noli Cedere’, Never Surrender.
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