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PP - // Larry K came from a generation that was far too revered by the punters - like walter cronkite
who thought that if he knelt in front of Ayatollah Kh, the old boy wd release the American hostages
I mean god where DO they get ideas sich as these from? //
It's important to remember that Cronkite, and our own Richard Dimbleby, were from a different era in television.
In the fifties and sixties, people really did trust and revere those names - remember Dimbley's famous 'spaghetti trees' April Fool joke which the entire nation fell for, because if Dimbleby said it, it must be true.
Kronkite similarly, whatever opinion he offered, it became the default national view.
But that was then, and the world has changed out of all recgonition since those days.
King maintained a gravitas conferred by his age, reputation and experience, but he woul no more set the 'agenda' today than you or I would - and we have something approaching the same access to the world that he enjoyed exclusively back in the day.