From cnn.com.
Moderator note: I merged in a separate thread that was originally in MPSIMS. If the chronology of the posts seems a little wonky, that’s what happened.
A class act all the way and the end of an era. 
You beat me to it. Just announced on BBC TV.
RIP, Walter.
CBS Apollo 11 live coverage of the landing, with commentary from Walter.
RIP.
To the stars!
There was just a recent thread on the fact that he was very ill.
Sorry to hear about his death - he was truly a class act, and a piece of television history has died with him.
Wow, another death this week where I was like, “He was still alive?”
I thought McNamara and Cronkite were long dead.
Truly a legend.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/17/eveningnews/main5170556.shtml
Apparently he’d been ill for some time. And it strikes me as tremendously unfair that he died just three days short of the 40th anniversary of one of the most amazing - and positive - broadcasts he ever got to make.
That’s the way it is, I suppose.
It really is sad, but not unexpected. I respected him as a newscaster. (Isn’t this supposed to be in Cafe Society?)
He stopped news broadcasting long before I started paying attention to it, but I’ve learned a lot about his character and demeanor from my studies.
Weird. I just mentioned him in a GQ thread not 2 hours ago, not knowing he’d passed away.
They don’t make em like that anymore. And that’s the way it is.
And that’s the way it was.
RIP, Mr. Cronkite.
Cronkite was probably the media’s biggest space buff. A damned shame that he died just before the 40th anniversary of the moon landing.
The last voice I trusted on a newscast.
RIP, Walter. You were one of the good ones.
Damn. I was hoping he would have made it past the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing.
One of my earliest memories. I was three years old.
He was the gold standard for television news. RIP.
Arguably the best-known voice in TV news for many decades. You never felt you were being spoon-fed the network version of things. He was a journalist in every sense of the word.
Yes. But one could say, not without a certain melancholy, that the era had ended some time back, and he was more a living memorial to it.
Once upon a time, there was someone on TV who was called “the most trusted man in America”…
Today, never mind TV… whoever the hell anywhere do we trust at all…
He lived to be 96 or something, so he had a good long life.
Farewell, Mr. Cronkite. You were the gold standard.