Well you could say the same thing about a very large number of journalists during the Revolutionary War (Royalists), the quasi-war with France (anti-Federalists), the War of 1812 (nearly all of New England, especially early in the war), the War with Mexico (lots of folks), and especially the Civil War (Copperheads), not to mention anti-imperalists during the Spanish-American war. Hostile reporters are not a new phenomenon.
But today reporters have a vastly enlarged and more rapid “news” delivery mechanism. “Three weeks of media treatment and the truth is recognized by all.” The rapid drumfire of thesis and counterthesis is irresistible. Very few can attain the inward detachment necessary even think through the latest rescript. Most of us think to order. This started in WWI.
Journalism in America has developed into a forum for Treason and Sedition. That has been obvious since the Korean War.
Well you could say the same thing about a very large number of journalists during the Revolutionary War (Royalists), the quasi-war with France (anti-Federalists), the War of 1812 (nearly all of New England, especially early in the war), the War with Mexico (lots of folks), and especially the Civil War (Copperheads), not to mention anti-imperalists during the Spanish-American war. Hostile reporters are not a new phenomenon.
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Those earlier cases were different. The Civil War, for example, did not have Americans opting to turn the country over to the Barbary pirates. Both sides in the Civil War were fighting for home and country. That is much different from simply being on the enemy side.
We had rather few outright traitors in WWII, except for some communists working under cover in the FDR administration. Later on, things changed. Today, much of the media is on the other side, and are plainly anti-American.