Reading Walter Cronkite’s obituary in today’s NY Times, I was delighted to learn that, amongst his many accomplishments, was his unwillingness to put up with bad grammar: In 1954, when CBS challenged NBC’s popular morning program “Today” with the short-lived “Morning Show,” it tapped Mr. Cronkite to be the host. Early on he riled the sponsor, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, by grammatically correcting its well-known advertising slogan, declaring, “Winston tastes good as a cigarette should.” As someone driven to distraction by the mangling of grammar (mis- and creative spellings, I am OK with; language, after all, is labile.

Sad, sad news today: legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite died last night at the age of 92. This CBS report on his passing highlights just some of his achievements from throughout his lengthy and storied career. A generation of television viewers grew up with Mr. Cronkite, many of which have become cultural touchstones. I hope people here will excuse me for revisiting one of my favorite takes on his reporting of the John F. Kennedy assassination: Jon Stewart’s and Stephen Colbert’s report on an incident at the JFK airport .

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