Fifty years ago the MSM abandoned all pretense of objectivity in order to promote their own socialist/liberal agenda. They haven’t changed except to become more bold because we’ve become weak. Why is the editor complaining now? It’s the way it’s always been ever since Cronkite cost us the Vietnam war. So to speak.
You are essentially correct (especially about the treacherous Cronkite) - except that it goes back even further: the media loved Roosevelt and Stalin, and covered for both.