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Monday, February 06, 2006
Frank, Cronkite and Woodruff
The passing of former NBC News president Reuven Frank got me thinking today. In the late 1960's, the CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite went to Vietnam to see the war firsthand. Luckily he was not injured and the anchor, who up until then was thought to be a hawk, returned to his broadcast " with a different perspective."
One wonders what stories ABC's Bob Woodruff will tell of the war in Iraq when he returns to the broadcast he shares with Ms. Vargas. He so desperately wanted to see the war as the Iraqi soldiers see it.