I have half a mind to finangle from Daniel Pinkwater’s Lizard Music something of Victor’s dreams of Roger Mudd reporting on Walter Cronkite disappearing, in lieu of anything to say.  Walter Cronkite was before my time.  I respect his Giant role in American culture, media, and news.  And I acknowledge the changes in American society that have broken our culture into a million little pieces away from the day a Walter Cronkite could hold such sway.

But something that I need to say.  Over the years, I’ve heard about Walter Cronkite being named “America’s Most Trusted Man”, coming from a survey in the early 1970s.  That is all good and well.  But it’s meaningless.  An Observer from Mars would learn that Walter Cronkite was America’s Most Trusted Man, then learn that Richard Nixon was America’s second Most Trusted Man, and come to the conclusion that the word “trust” has no meaning.

Then the Martian Observer would say, “And that’s the way it is,” and leave Earth.

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