What year did journalism start to be "unrealiable"? What happened?

October 25, 2017 | Guava Cheese Puff

[GuavaCheesePuff]

What happened? When did journalism become "unrealiable" for some people? What the hell is going on? Why is it becoming irrelevant? CBS hired Jeff Glor for CBS Evening News, no one cares. What's going on?

https://pagesix.com/2017/10/25/cbs-evening-news-didnt-hire-a-big-star-because-the-network-is-frugal/

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/sign-of-the-times-cbs-names-jeff-glor-evening-news-anchor-and-nobody-cares/

[<1/1,000,000th%]

1933; after FDR forced corporations into his central planning committees.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I was in high school when this went down.

My Father clued me in...

[BuffaloJack]

Walter Cronkite.

[Chode]

100% a mere prototype

[SkyDancer]

Eighteen sixties - you should read what the MSM at the time wrote about Lincoln. Those broadsheets are displayed in the Lincoln library in Springfield, IL.

[JimSEA]

You’ll beat me next time. ;-)

[bitt]

I stopped reading the Boston Globe in 1975, noticing how politically correct they were becoming, and force-feeding us the dem slant.

[bitt]

ping

[Conservative4Life]

Walter Cronkite announcing “We lost the war, the TET offensive was a disaster and the final straw for America in Vietnam”

[gymbeau]

I was a newsman in Canadian radio but had enough by 1993. My gradual epiphany, if there is such a thing, started with Reagan’s election, before which we were told the world would end. Then he made it better but was fought all the way. Kinda like President Trump now, but not as bad.

I was at the Canadian war museum a couple of weeks back and they have a “Cold War ending” display with Gorbachev looking warm and fuzzy and Reagan and Thatcher with typically-chosen facial expressions. They never change.

[khelus]

“1932 when the NYT won the Pulitzer prize for Walter Duranty’s phony reports whitewashing Stalin’s Ukranian genocide”

Yup

[Major Matt Mason]

I think the media truly started feeling their oats after Watergate and the Vietnam years, and they've been on a power trip ever since. It is time to pull the plug on many of them, though - they have aided and abetted the lawless Democrats for a long time, which is all seems to be coming to a head now.

[KC_Conspirator]

I will go back farther when George Bush the Elder appeared on Larry King and Klinton's staffer George Steponallofus was allowed to call in and attack him on CNN.

The 90s the wagons in the media circled around the Klintons after the 94' Republican Revolution. All downhill from there. (Gingrich that Stole Xmas, etc)

[GOPJ]

The start - - the turning point for mainstream Americans - - was the Drudge Report... Whitewater - Dan Rather and FreeRepublic.

[Billthedrill]

Walter Cronkite.

Vietnam

Tet Offensive, and Uncle Walter, The Most Trusted Voice In America, declared victory for the losers and defeat for the Americans. Right there, that was the watershed. When they added Nixon's scalp to their trophy case it was a done deal.

[yarddog]

You put it well but I would go back a little further to McCarthy. After they took him down was when they really knew they had the power.

Even today when it can be proven that McCarthy was correct, his name is still used as a dirty slander word.

[null and void]

≈3500 BC.

It's gotten "progressively" worse.

[Twink]

My Dad said never, journalism was never reliable, but became noticeable or blatant to him in the late 50s-early 60s. He died in 1999.

I agree with whoever said “when newscasters became celebrities” that it became entertainment rather than news.

[Carlucci]

For me, despite all their lies and agenda-driven reoprting,the media at least did their business with the pretense of impartiality. That pretense was irrevovcably wiped away with their childish, damnable reporting on J. Danforth Quayle, including the infamous potatoe incident.

[LS]

See Jim Kuypers, “Partisan Journalism”.

I wrote the foreword.