Walter Cronkite, found by public-opinion polls during his 19-year tenure as anchorman of the CBS Evening News to be "the most trusted man in America," has died at age 92.
During an age when people discovered that they didn't necessarily have to wait until the next morning's newspaper to find out what was happening, they came to rely on the grandfatherly Cronkite to bring them the truth.
He was there to tell us about some of the most tumultuous, devastating and uplifting events of the past century -- the Vietnam war, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, man's landing on the moon.
It wasn't the news he reported, though, that distinguished Cronkite but rather his credibility. We believed every word he said -- and with good reason. He was an honorable man and one we shall miss.
And that's the way it is.
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