But, dear Vivo, Blarkleblart, Glenn Kenny: Cronkite just read other people’s words on TV every night. What did he actually DO to make him such a object of veneration?

Anything more than this?

“He emitted the same platitudes every other news reader mouthed. He did so, however, with a sort of cardigan authenticity that used car salesmen would climb naked over broken bottles to emulate.”

Bravo, Roger.