Posted on 09/25/2016 9:11:50 AM PDT by NRx
“And that’s the way it is”
It sounds ominous today.
1968- the highwater mark of American “liberal consensus” technocracy.
Wow...what a dick John Lindsay was!
Great phrase and concept, but it could equally be argued that the high water mark of American liberal consensus technocracy occurred on August 9, 1974, the day Nixon resigned.
Whatever you think of the newscasters at the time, THAT was a good and straight newscast the way it should be done.
I agree. It was a straight just the facts please, relatively balanced (certainly by today’s standards) news broadcast.
Reminds me of a time when you could actually watch the mainstream media and get . . . NEWS . . . and not . . . OPINION. At least when it was opinion, they specifically stated that it was.
Wow, that triggered a flood of memories.
My brother:
Samuel T. Smith, Jr., LCpl, USMC
Born June 19, 1949 KIA July 14, 1968
When the republican colors were blue.
Bobby Kennedy had been shot a month before, and America was in the midst of an anti-gun hysteria.
“My brother:
Samuel T. Smith, Jr., LCpl, USMC
Born June 19, 1949 KIA July 14, 1968”
Memory eternal!
At age 20 then, I was neither for or against Vietnam.
So when drafted in December 1968, I complied, and reported.
When I got out of the army two years hence, I was still not firmly on either side.
Those were tumultuous times, though. Young people today cannot imagine how much different it was.
Most young males then were at risk of being drafted for a war that they had little stake with.
Today hardly anybody is at risk, to give anything for their country.
We live in a minimal consequences society.
And rightly so. Better dead than red. Now I hear that slogan is showing up on bumper stickers in San Francisco!
And not one female correspondent
Gave the crabs to Florence Henderson, too (per her autobiography)
No story on the crippled kid that got to ride on the fire truck and no commercial for any prescription drug.
“THAT was a good and straight newscast the way it should be done.”
Not really. Cronkite lied to the American people night after night. He claimed the 68 Tet offensive was a loss for America and a win for the North Vietnamese. The exact opposite was true.
His broadcasts were loaded with liberal and communist innuendo, key words, and phrases. He outright lied.
True, but in this video, I at least got to hear stories presented, with opposing sides allowed to give extended statements without a bunch of hype, editorializing, and unprofessional crap from the reporter.
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