Posted on 07/12/2019 9:37:20 PM PDT by ransomnote
Thank you for sharing that! I was 5 years old and need to educate myself on that era. Our schools NEVER touched it and I remain, sadly, ignorant on so much of it!
EXACTLY! I appreciate Fox News for commentary and, largely, their past efforts... But as I told my former and good acquaintance Mike Gallagher “It does NOT need to be ‘Fair & Balanced’ - it only need be true and accurate!”. (He didn’t appreciate that opine since he was, then, an active commentator.
Interesting! I was a kid during the era and the evidence of bias, to me, is scant. Good Freepers like you are now educating me. I was a journalism/mass media major circa 1985 with accolades, taught by liberal educators who were (unlike today) totally objective and had integrity. At age 55, I’m still catching up on any media history pre-Rush Limbaugh 90’s.
If they were left-wingers, you were already getting the brainwashing (perhaps more subtle, but still there). I’m a decade behind you in age and got the brainwashing in public school and stood up to it about that same time 3 1/2 decades ago.
When Cronkite was powerful enough to deliberately sabotage our mission in Vietnam based on LIES (we were not losing, we were winning), it showed how truly dangerous these so-called “journalists” were. Even before Cronkite, you had Edward R. Murrow, and he sought to destroy Sen. Joe McCarthy and his exposure of Soviet and pro-Soviet sympathizer infiltration into our government and institutions.
That they are respected in any way is sickening. The damage they did is incalculable.
Heck, forget Cronkite, or Murrow, or even Duranty. This whole leftist rot in “objective” news sources (the quotes are meant to indicate sarcasm) was there since Walter Lippmann even formed Objective News Media, and such was by design. Just read up ProgressingAmerica, and you’ll see what I mean by that.
And I’m just going by America alone. If I were to go even farther back, I’d even argue that that whole mess started with the Enlightenment via Voltaire and his cronies when they took over the French Academy in their agenda against Christianity.
You really can trace it all back to the snake in the Garden of Eden. It’s God (good) vs. evil.
Well, yeah, that too.
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