Cronkite the actor
My complaint is not that Walter Cronkite has a bias, as all reasonable, intelligent humans have, but that he denied it all those years (“Walter Cronkite Returns to His Trusty Typewriter,” by David Shaw, July 6).
People spend billions of dollars each year to go to a theater to see a lift of an eyebrow, a shrug of a shoulder, the curl of a lip, a change in the inflection in voice tone -- all those things that are considered the art of acting.
For all those many years, Uncle Walter did those things while he denied he had a bias, but now he admits he is and always has been a liberal. Anyone who watched and cared knew that, so why didn’t he just admit it years ago?
And I do look forward to his column.
James T. Humberd
La Quinta
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