[knarf]

I find these posts fascinating, and I try to read as much as I can, but I think I've discovered something that MAY be a reason we are being so screwed today.

While reading about the four powers unifying to bring world peace and enforce it (the UN no less !!!), it occurs to me The News of that time was very rich and full.

The newspapers reported with excellent English and very descriptive phraseology, it was almost impossible to "misread" or misunderstand what was being said.

If we compare the news of the 40's to the news of the 13's, we find a great gulf between the two in English composition and the meat of a subject.

In '43, we're transported back to a conference and can almost hear the exact words used by Gordon Hull or Anthony Eden ...

Today we barely learn that the Cambridge police are stupid and o'zero doesn't know a thing ... never did ... never will.

People today have been neutered in their ability to read bercause there's nothing to read.

There are more these days, but vastly fewer book readers than say .. 60 years ago.

I grew up reading newspapers and my father's Kiplinger letter.

[colorado tanker]

The reporting was also accurate (except for a couple of bad eggs who skewed reporting on the Soviet Union). Today's newspapers, including the Times, make up their own facts, rewrite history and run "news" stories that are barely disguised editorials.

It's sad to see how far they have fallen. Like you, I've enjoyed some damn fine reporting in these posts.