Morning y’all
Wow .. Dianne Feinstein sure is spinning on Fox
Huge difference between Johnson giving preferential access to those reporters deemed “Friendly,” and the direct coordination of “News” coverage between the DNC and the current “News” media. Cronkite reported what he saw, he did not ask the DNC what he should be saying.
NO President prior to 2004 ever had one of the 3 major new networks, in addition to one of the major new magazines, acting as campaign outlets for his foe. None of them ever let a campaign operative plant a phony “news” story based on obviously fraudulent documents that the “News” organization was warned against using.
A Presidential speech use to be a news event. NOW days the only place you can get the text of a President’s speech, other then the State of the Union, is the White House Website.
Use to be a Presidential speech drove the new cycle for days. NOW it last about 6-12 hours.
It use to be the person quoted was quoted. With the statement put in context. Now days they paraphrase people or only selectively quote partial sentences. I have Even see examples, where reporter simply attributed statements to the govt source that the source never actually said. They simply used the press release or statement and put their own personal spin on the topic.
So looking back in hind site, fallible memory can imagine that the Vietnam era media was just like this one, it in fact was nothing like this one.
Rush Limbaugh made the observation that in his whole life he has NEVER seen a “News” media be as transparently partisan has they have become since the Clinton years.
I think you have simply allowed your personal dislike for the President to crowd out any serious consideration of how the 27-7 news cycle and “advocacy Journalism” has seriously corrupted and changed the “News” media.