Walter Cronkite - Before the Age of Information Overload

The passing of Walter Cronkite, a man so closely associated with television news that the word for news anchor in several countries is a variation of Cronkiter, serves as a demarcation between an information age and the age of information overload.

For much of the 20th century, news was delivered once a day, first for 15 minutes and later for 30. That concept is foreign to generations...