President Obama honored the fallen journalist as someone dedicated to his craft who based his approach to news on "...his belief that the American people were hungry for the truth, unvarnished and unaccompanied by theater or spectacle."  Unfortunately, the integrity Walter Cronkite brough to televised news is in short supply these days, but accolades for the icon of electronic journalism, who died July 17 at the age of 92, were plentiful at a memorial for him in New York's Lincoln Center tonite.  Jimmy Buffett was there to honor his friend and fellow mariner with a rendition of Son of A Son Of A Sailor.
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