This just in, from the Dept. of Things That We Meant to Post on Tuesday But Didn’t Get Up Until Thursday …
In the wake of Walter Cronkite’s death, the folks over at WaPo are wondering who will take his place as the Most Trusted Man (or Woman) in America. The answers ranged from the predictable (President and Michelle Obama, Oprah) to the, um, laughable (Mylie Cyrus). Readers can offer their own suggestions here.
There were three vaguely religion-related responses, although you’d like Archbishop Donald Wuerl could do better than this:
“It would be difficult to name any one person in our present time who could fill the role Walter Cronkite had as the most trusted person in America. That is particularly true in media for two reasons. The first is the large and increasing number of sources to which we turn for information and the second is the trend of today’s journalists not only to report the news objectively, but also to provide personal commentary through columns, blogs and TV punditry.”— Archbishop Donald Wuerl, Archdiocese of Washington.
Couldn’t he have least given a nod to the boss, the pope?
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