When former news giant, Walter Cronkite died this past week, a part of American cultural history also died.

Anyone over 40 yrs old may have some recollection of the evening news and the giants of an era when Broadcast News Journalism was real journalism. When anchors were more than pretty faces and puppets of the TelePrompter. A constant face, symbol and icon of that era was Walter Cronkite who anchored the CBS world news chair for many years. He announced when Pres. John F. Kennedy ('63) and Martin Luther King ('68) were assassinated. Cronkite was known for his interviews with world leaders, his coverage of Water Gate and much more. Cronkite reported on Vietnam, and after going on a fact finding mission to the hot spot, he returned and honestly told it as he saw it-that America couldn't win there.

Walter Cronkite represented the kind of journalism that is considered old school, but according to most veteran journalists, it is the right school. In the news industry, from broadcast television to terestrial blogging, the name Cronkite defines one thing, Journalistic Integrity. He was called the "most trusted man in America", and at the close of each broadcast his famous sign off was "and thats the way it is"-some how all of us knew, coming from Cronkite-thats the way it really was. Walter Cronkite was 92 years old.