18 July 2009

RIP Walter Cronkite

For those who would like to see him at work, this is how Cronkite reported the murder of Martin Luther King.

I love the anachronisms of old footage. The phrase "in color" in the introduction, as the fact that a broadcast was in color could not yet be taken for granted in April 1968. It was the HDTV of the time.

And the expression "Negro leader" for King. When exactly did network anchors and their ilk stop using "Negro"?
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Pragmatism Refreshed

Knowledge is warranted belief -- it is the body of belief that we build up because, while living in this world, we've developed good reasons for believing it. What we know, then, is what works -- and it is, necessarily, what has worked for us, each of us individually, as a first approximation. For my other blog, on the struggles for control in the corporate suites, see www.proxypartisans.blogspot.com.