... than previously reported. The word from his assistant, interviewed earlier today with the report coming out in the last ten minutes or so, indicate that Cronkite is going to be fine. Really old and stuff, but fine.
"he is aging. He's suffering the challenges of age, but he's not gravely ill. Only God knows when life will end and for Walter, it's not imminent." said Marlene Adler, Cronkite's assistant.
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Sadly, we hear the news that Walter Cronkite is gravely ill. Well, not so sadly really, since he appears to have had a great life and in living that life, managed to get quite old. So good for him.
Following almost exactly one month on earlier reports that he was gravely ill, which were followed, in turn, by denials of those reports, Walter Cronkite has died at the age of 92. And that's the way it was.
When I was little, I called every TV anchor "Cronkite." He literally defined "journalist" for me.
He will be missed.
I love the fact that the tide is turning on Fox. (That might not be the best analogy.) In any event, this is a great example, from Rachel Maddow, of how life is more complex than much of our discourse allows for. And she does it with Walter Cronkite, and all the others on her side.
I breathe a sigh of relief.
And yet, Adler's assertion that only God knows when he'll die, and that she knows it's not imminent, suggests she has some insight into the mind of God.
I assume she is just using standard-speak of her culture and is in fact a rational atheist. It's like me saying "Jeesh."
The reporter who bothered writing it down should be flogged.