RE: There was a time when ordinary people.. even walter cronkite when on TV, told the truth.. lying was beneath them. So was disrespect and being rude.
Is this the same Cronkite who told America that the USA has lost the war in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive even as we were bombing the Vietcong’s to kingdom come and crippling their military?
Yes, the same. He was on the news... 15 minutes...6:00 to 6:15 pm... many years before he showed his liberal side. Once he began showing his left positions, he just got worse at it. When tv first came into our homes, there was no such thing as liberalism being the norm and showing it was taboo.
When Kennedy was shot, cronkite went into morning ... he broke on TV.. when I was growing up, I didn’t know there were liberals out there.
Amos and Andy was on the radio and then TV... today it would not be allowed in any shape or form. Seeing the changes... some of them are hard to take today. It isn’t for the better at all... and it just keeps going lower.