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.