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[PaulSolomon]

We all will remember where we were when Michael Jackson died. I was at the computer. I found out on Twitter. Times have changed. I remember watching TV news the old-fashioned way, not finding out about important events until Walter Cronkite told us.

[PaulSolomon]

The world is a different place than when I was a kid - when Walter Cronkite wiped tears from his eyes after telling the nation the John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. The news filtered slowly through a cumbersome method of news gathering such as the Associated Press news wire, the land line telephone, and fact-checkers who had to wait in line for verification before confirming events. There was no cable news and no Internet, so hours went by before we got official confirmation on the evening news. Walter Cronkite was the bearer of bad news. But there was a certain comfort hearing it from "Uncle Walt".