The arrogance and condescension of these people like Mapes in the MSM is beyond measure. They feel they have the right to conduct fraudulent political assassinations and to shove it down the throats of the people of this country without consequence.
Ugh.
And why shouldn't they? They've gotten away with it on TV and radio for over 60 years: from Edward R. Murrow's "assassination" of Joe McCarthy to the Vietnam War (Rather's shining moment), Watergate, etc. The Media Elite have always lived in an alternate universe.
It's not just a TV-radio thing. How many of us today remember the media role in the Spanish-American War? After the still mysterious sinking of the Maine in Havana harbor, William Randolph Hearst sent artist Frederick Remington to Cuba to investigate it rumors of "death camps" and an uprising of the Cubans against the Spanish colonial government.
Remington, found little to report on when he and the reporters arrived. "There is no war," Remington wrote to Hearst. "Request to be recalled." Hearst sent a cable in reply: "Please remain. You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war." He did, with a daily barrage of anti-Spain articles that whipped up intense American animosity with the rallying cry: "Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain."
Historians can correct me if I'm wrong but I think the latest thought on why the Maine exploded is self-detonation from faulty explosives or an accident in its magazine. Anyhow, it's still not certain the cause was a Spanish mine or sabotage.