The world lost a great man when CBS news legend Walter Cronkite died on Friday at 92 after a long illness. Over the weekend, we were impressed by an appreciation of Cronkite by LA Times television critic Robert Lloyd. The 40-word pull-quote from the piece succinctly sums up, we think, the measure of the man:

“He was serious but good-humored; he had a common touch without being folksy; he was impartial but not amoral, disinterested but not detached, above the fray but not without a point of view, though he never made himself the story.”