Portrait of the Journalist as an Anchorman - CBS News

(CBS)  He was the broadcaster for whom the word "anchorman" was coined. Veteran CBS Newsman Walter Cronkite died Friday evening at the age of 92. He played a role in our national life like no other broadcast journalist . . . and all the rest of us are still following in his footsteps.

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Martha Teichner offers this appreciation: For nearly twenty years one man told Americans "the way it is" . . . "What made Walter Cronkite, Walter Cronkite? I could no more tell you that than I could tell you what made Spencer Tracy, Spencer Tracy or Cary Grant, Cary Grant," said Don Hewitt, one of Cronkite's earliest producers and the creator of "60 Minutes." Years before there was such a thing as a TV anchorman, while Cronkite was still a combat reporter in WWII working for a wire service, it was already clear he had something.

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