marketplace of ideas, strange wording for a communist.
"Television first overtook newsprint to become the dominant source of information in America in 1963. But for the next two decades, the television networks mimicked the nation's leading newspapers by faithfully following the standards of the journalism profession. Indeed, men like Edward R. Murrow led the profession in raising the bar. "
And men like Cronkite and Rather lowered it back down to an inch of the ground.