Extra Word Sudoku Puzzle for Saturday, 7/18/2009

What sort of day was it?”

Walter Cronkite died yesterday, after a long illness. He was 92.

Late yesterday, I talked about "America's most trusted journalist" in this blog, relating my own past experience in the same line of business. And since this is primarily a word puzzle blog rather than simply my meanderings, I provided you a Qudoku puzzle set spelling out Cronkite’s famous signoff line, “And that’s the way it is.”

Beginning about 1950, before Cronkite anchored the nightly newscast, he set up and ran the news department at the Washington, D.C. CBS station, where he and his colleagues invented at least half a dozen news/public affairs shows intended to provide perspective, while also being interesting.

(When I coach executives in media interviewing, I always remind them that TV news is an oxymoron: oil and water. You can shake it all you want, but it will always separate. News means facts and information; TV, the medium for delivery, means emotion and nonverbal communication. A good TV news reporter knows how—and how much—to mix them, delivering the facts, information and perspective, all the while keeping you watching through emotional connection. In 90 seconds or less!)

To me—a young child at the time—Cronkite and crew’s most interesting work in the mid 1950’s was “You Are There,” a TV show that re-created historical events, reporting them as if they were breaking news. And as they would again do years later on the nightly newscast, Cronkite and his writers found a signature line for the end that, at least for my generation, became memorable.

VALUED
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once

MOW, FRY
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once

THINKS
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once
Copy circled letters to the corresponding numbered cells in the quote grid to spell out the quote

Solutions first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave