By: E&P Staff King Features Wednesday saluted former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, who wrote a series of columns for the syndicate between August 2003 and August 2004.
"He made my job as his editor the greatest in editorial journalism," King Features Managing Editor Glenn Mott said in a statement released Wednesday.
Cronkite, the former anchor of the CBS Evening News who died Friday at age 92, agreed to write a syndicated column for King because of his concern over "our bellicose military policy; our arrogant foreign policy; our domestic security policy that threatens our freedom of speech, press, and person; and our financial policy that many if not most economists believe
threatens a national deficit deep into this century," according to a statement he made in June 2003.
"He's seen many of the major events of the past century -- and probably
known every president since Franklin Roosevelt," Mott told E&P Online when Cronkite's column was announced. "He has historical perspective and credibility."
According to King Features, Cronkite's column, titled "And That's The Way I See It," was carried by more than 180 papers nationwide. His last column for King ran on Aug. 26, 2004, when America's newsman wrote, "it has proved harder than I expected to fit the exacting deadline of a weekly column into my heavy schedule of television and radio documentaries and public speaking."
Cronkite's last column was a tribute to the newspapering medium in which he began his career. "Yesterday's newspaper, carefully filed away, is the custodian of our history," he wrote. "From those newspaper files future historians will wring from the past the very essence of who we were and the world in which we lived.
"The future of our civilization incubates in those newspaper files. From them will be extracted the knowledge that will point the way for future generations to avoid our worst mistakes and find the path to an even better world."
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