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To: ClearCase_guy

and many of us of a certain age recall, when Walter Cronkite, the alleged most trusted man in America at the time, came out against the Vietnam War. Supposedly Cronkite was so nonpartisan and even handed, but he was really very liberal, and sometimes it showed in his reporting.

Later, we learned that our side held back and defended against the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War in 1968. But our media, including Cronkite, reported it as a massive defeat. Which in turn helped turn public opinion against the war, based on false facts presented in the media.

Media bias certainly is nothing new.


5 posted on 01/03/2018 12:42:46 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It’s a long read, but the point here is that bias isn’t the issue.

Stellar Wind, how the libs handled the Plame case, and how institutional media played ball with first an R, then a very far left D Admin.

Regardless of playing with both bias, the outcome was identical, and antithetical to the interests of regular people living in the US that call themselves ‘citizen’, as if that meant anything legally anymore.


8 posted on 01/03/2018 2:20:45 PM PST by RinaseaofDs (Truth, in a time of universal deceit, is courage)
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