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...Reagan shooting turned the U.S. into a giant newsroom...
When Walter Cronkite signed off The Evening News to follow other pursuits, few could have guessed that his first-indeed, almost immediate -move would be from the newsroom to the board room. But last week, just days after he vacated the anchorman's chair he had occupied for 19 years, Pan American World Airways announced that Cronkite had been named a director of the company. "I've always had an interest in flight and the airlines and a fondness for Pan Am in particular," explained Cronkite. "It made a perfect fitting of interests...
...final week as anchorman Cronkite is at his desk as the bright lights turn on about ten minutes before the broadcast, in the low-ceilinged newsroom on Manhattan's West Side. In shirtsleeves, Cronkite reads through the copy with a stopwatch, addresses a question over his shoulder to whoever should know the answer ("Don't we have any more on this?"), occasionally turns to the typewriter to rephrase a sentence. Nobody speaks to him unless spoken to. The same sort of invisible cocoon isolates a professional football coach on the sideline from the players around him. Someone unobtrusively...
...tried to devise special glasses for him that wouldn't reflect the strong lights. Nor would Cronkite move from the newsroom to a high-ceiling studio where "they could have saved me some years in appearance on the air by proper lighting." He was insisting on a point: "It's not the picture of me that counts. It's what we are saying and doing." John Chancellor says: "The fact is, those of us who are serious middle-aged journalists have sheltered in the lee of his success...
...five in the morning, a newsroom of rubble, an endless metronome of wire-machine clattering to no one, a sea of crumpled paper and broken typewriters, a resting place for tradition that stares down from the peeling yellowed walls, womb of a thousand dreams and careers and distortions and corrections and insights, a repository for the mediocre and the brilliant and the misfired and the passing-through and the incorrectly pasted up, O Crimson, you are a line on a resume and a way of life...