[martin_fierro]

When, after the misreported Tet offensive of 1968 (a U.S. military victory described as a crushing defeat), Cronkite declared Vietnam a ``stalemate,'' he spoke, as Mindich says, to ``a captive audience.'' Nearly 80 percent of television sets in use at the dinner hour were tuned to one of the three network newscasts, and Cronkite had the largest share.

I take it as part of Cronkite's damnation that he's lived long enough to witness the ramifications of what his bias helped create.

[Rembrandt_fan]

It would never occur to Cronkite to rethink his performance and attitudes during the Vietnam War--the Tet offensive particularly--much less admit wrongdoing even if he did come to that realization. Dan Rather and others are in the same boat. To say they were wrong on any one thing might lead them to rigorous self-examination of all of their positions. Can't have that.

I don't think liberal media bias is a conscious conspiracy directed by faceless elites (for the most part, anyway). I think it is a widespread, unspoken consensus, a matter of like-minded people confined within the same professional sphere, unopposed by alternative viewpoints. Lack of dissent tends to reinforce and narrow the collective worldview among that particular group--in this case, mass-media journalists. To these people, propaganda is truth.

[pabianice]

When, after the misreported Tet offensive of 1968 (a U.S. military victory described as a crushing defeat), Cronkite declared Vietnam a ``stalemate,'' he spoke, as Mindich says, to ``a captive audience.'' Nearly 80 percent of television sets in use at the dinner hour were tuned to one of the three network newscasts, and Cronkite had the largest share. I take it as part of Cronkite's damnation that he's lived long enough to witness the ramifications of what his bias helped create.

Nope. The old bastard is today just as cheerful when misreporting what has happened in Vietnam since 1975. He's a hopeless Marxist shill (of course, his devotion to communism has not in any way stopped him from personally enjoying the great wealth his misreporting gave him).

[fish hawk]

trouble is, Cronkite is too senile to know what is going on. He still thinks he is great.