Hail to the chief, Craig Ferguson.
Craig Ferguson, the host of the Late Late Show on CBS and easily the funniest man on television, has been honored with a Peabody Award, usually reserved for those a little serious.
The award was for the episode where he interviewed Archbishop Desmond Tutu. That doesn’t mean it was serious.
If you haven’t watched Ferguson’s show, you’re missing out.
I know I’m a couple of days behind here, but putting out two papers a night can be time-consuming and all, and sometimes, you just don’t have time to stop and think.
If something big happened during a large part of the 20th century, CBS newsman Walter Cronkite reported on it.
Cronkite, who died July 17, brought the news into a lot of Americans’ homes during the golden age of television, when most Americans’ window to the world was that box in their living room tuned to one of the big three networks.
Since then, the way we get news has changed. First CNN emerged, the 24-hour news cycle, the Internet, and now, the news with a nice spin to the left or the right, depending on what you choose to believe.
But none of them do it like Cronkite did.
And that’s a shame.
At the top of this post was the seven-minute piece CBS ran the evening he died. Below are a couple of big broadcasts he did.
 | macmystery on In memory of a teammate |
 | Cate on In memory of a teammate |
 | Frazzled Daisy on This … is Jeopardy! |
 | Treasa Nicewander on The Freedom Rides turn 50 |
 | Zievah Flynn on A strange anniversary |
Raising Two Americans 