First, let’s translate that into English:Journalism “was more balanced then."
In reality, journalism was slobbering all over John and Jackie Kennedy in 1962. You couldn’t pass a counter anywhere without being “treated” to a picture of one or the other of them. It was sickening.Bias in journalism didn’t start later, it was in full bloom when we were told that Joe McCarthy was a right wing radical for saying what we now know was an understatement of the communist subversion of the government.
“. . . we were told that Joe McCarthy was a right wing radical for saying what we now know was an understatement of the communist subversion of the government.”
GOOD CALL! How did I forget that? But that was prior to ‘62. My mom never missed televised Yankee games until the HUAC, Senate FRC subcommittee, and Army/McCarthy hearings were televised. Both parents, and eventually all we kids, became ardent McCarthy-supporters—my father perhaps a bit too ardent: NYC lawyer and gentle soul that he was, he KO’d two Democrats who argued on behalf of everything Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and Mike Wallace were spewing about JRM. We kids had problems, too. All our nuns were Irish, meaning Democrat, and they didn’t much like our defense of even a Catholic Republican on the playground.