Remember when Mediaite promised it would have less snark?

Remember back in the day when Dan Abrams’s Mediaite launched? All that spin about how it would have less snark than some other useful websites out there in the internet world?

Or as it would like to be known, a cross between HuffPo and Gawker. And by that it means big giant headlines (the HuffPo part), but stories with less snark than Gawker.

via Bonfire of Vanities: Mediaite Launches To Fill In Media-Covering-Media Void | paidContent.

Well, so much for that:

It’s not often that somebody dying makes me feel young. But the death of Walter Cronkite has inspired me with an overwhelming feeling of youthfulness.

You see, I really know next to nothing about Walter Cronkite. He means nothing at all to me. Hearing that he’s dead was like a looking at a well-painted apartment wall. You get the feeling that a good job might have been done but that’s the limit of the emotional or intellectual reaction.

So why does this make me feel young? Well, let’s face it. Cronkite was important to the kind of people whose memories of our public life is full of Kennedy and King assassinations, the hippies fighting cops at Democratic convention in 1968, the ’60s culture wars, Watergate, Gerald Ford, Vietnam, the oil crises, Elvis’s death and Lennon’s murder, Three Mile Island, and Jimmy Carter’s 1979 summer meltdown.

I care about that stuff the way a guy storming the beach at Normandy cared about the Spanish American war. It’s more well-painted walls.

via Walter Cronkite Meant Nothing To Me | Columnists | Mediaite.

I’m glad to see Mediaite’s editors carefully selected John Carney’s essential “so what about Walter Cronkite” voice to add to their little echo chamber.
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