It NEVER ended. go all the way back to WW2 and follow the nyslimes, worshington past and LAslimes. They NEVER STOPPED.
not to mention the ‘networks’ If I ever discover cronkites grave, I hope its while I’m taking a leak.
And before WWII
New York Times, about 1930 - - -
The head of the NYT’s Moscow bureau at that time was Walter Duranty, an apologist for Bolshevism. American left-wing intellectuals enthusiastically greeted his dispatches from the Soviet Union. In 1931, Duranty was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles in the NYT that covered up Stalinism’s atrocities.
https://thefederalist.com/2017/03/24/new-york-times-contributed-ukraines-bitter-harvest-1930s/