Comments on: What did Walter Cronkite think about online journalism? http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2009/07/23/what-did-walter-cronkite-think-about-online-journalism/ Online journalism news Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:16:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The NYT’s Cronkite mistakes and the paper’s ‘top 20′ error rate list | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2009/07/23/what-did-walter-cronkite-think-about-online-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-15766 The NYT’s Cronkite mistakes and the paper’s ‘top 20′ error rate list | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:28:24 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=12348#comment-15766 [...] Walter Cronkite, renowned for his careful reporting, would have made of all this… Last month in a Q&A with users on WashingtonPost.com, his former chief of staff, Marlene Adler said: “As a newspaper man and a TV reporter, speed [...] [...] Walter Cronkite, renowned for his careful reporting, would have made of all this… Last month in a Q&A with users on WashingtonPost.com, his former chief of staff, Marlene Adler said: “As a newspaper man and a TV reporter, speed [...]

]]> By: Jimmy Montague http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2009/07/23/what-did-walter-cronkite-think-about-online-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-15052 Jimmy Montague Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:55:18 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=12348#comment-15052 Uncle Walter being worried about source attribution by internet journalists rings hollow. Read his autobiography (A Reporter's Life. Alfred A. Knopf; New York, 1996), in which any number of people are accused of saying this, that, or the other thing, you find not ONE footnote and there is no index. Evidently Walter believed that attribution is for mere mortals and that gods such as he were exempt from such standards. Uncle Walter being worried about source attribution by internet journalists rings hollow. Read his autobiography (A Reporter’s Life. Alfred A. Knopf; New York, 1996), in which any number of people are accused of saying this, that, or the other thing, you find not ONE footnote and there is no index. Evidently Walter believed that attribution is for mere mortals and that gods such as he were exempt from such standards.

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