Cronkite ended up being far more lefty than we knew at the time
Dan Rathers “thugs” comments at the 1968 DNC convention notwithstanding, the media was not overly sympathetic to the Yippies and Hippies and the youth were considered them part of the problem....the establishment.
The radicals were not enamoured with the Dems either but the more pragmatic liked Mccarthy and maybe RFK a bit.
>>> the media was not overly sympathetic to the Yippies and Hippies <<<
I was quite young at the time, but I don’t remember the media being very sympathetic to the US effort in support of South Vietnam — in the early 70s or later. Hollywood certainly wasn’t!