{"id":33950,"date":"2016-09-19T11:30:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=33950"},"modified":"2016-09-18T18:16:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T22:16:49","slug":"10-years-ago-today-cpj-honors-walter-cronkite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/10-years-ago-today-cpj-honors-walter-cronkite\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Years Ago Today: CPJ Honors Walter Cronkite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago today, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpj.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Committee to Protect Journalists<\/a> honored <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/reports\/2006\/01\/anniversary.php\" target=\"_blank\">iconic CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite for 25 years of service as CPJ&#8217;s honorary chairman<\/a>. MrB and I were there! Here&#8217;s a goofy photo someone took with my camera.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33951\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33951\" class=\"wp-image-33951\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cronkite.jpg\" alt=\"MrB, Mr. Cronkite, and me.\" width=\"498\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cronkite.jpg 549w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cronkite-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-33951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MrB, MrC, and me.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Getty Images more serious, action shot, in which I&#8217;m identified as &#8220;guest.&#8221; LOL.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/112066236\" target=\"_blank\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 70.538721% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/112066236?et=oz8MAPLdTZtGycKhzZlIog&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=VRuJDb1PaTfTzFP6iAjmpYOGmHiADRR77SBrJXaNSzk=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"419\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center>If Brian Williams ever tells you he was there too, he ain&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2015\/02\/brian-williams-lie-114950\" target=\"_blank\">lying<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/event\/the-committee-to-protect-journalists-honors-walter-cronkite-s-25-years-of-75337052#walter-cronkite-cpj-honorary-chairman-and-brian-williams-of-nbc-news-picture-id112066242\" target=\"_blank\">There&#8217;s photographic evidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Walter Cronkite died on July 17, 2009, at age 92. If you&#8217;re too young to be familiar with Cronkite&#8217;s work, you can see seven of his most memorable moments <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2009\/07\/17\/7-memorable-walter-cronkite-broadcasts.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, including his reporting on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago today, the Committee to Protect Journalists honored iconic CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite for 25 years of service as CPJ&#8217;s honorary chairman. MrB and I were there! Here&#8217;s a goofy photo someone took with my camera. And here&#8217;s Getty Images more serious, action shot, in which I&#8217;m identified as &#8220;guest.&#8221; LOL. Embed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/10-years-ago-today-cpj-honors-walter-cronkite\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[669,568,41,607],"tags":[810],"class_list":{"0":"post-33950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-about-wendy","8":"category-journalism","9":"category-pictures-of-me","10":"category-throwback-thursday","11":"tag-walter-cronkite","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33950"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34140,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33950\/revisions\/34140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}