Siding with the powerless: Ideas from 60 years in journalism (Cronkite admits Liberal Media Bias)

Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 8/26/03 | Walter Cronkite

[finnman69]

AH HA!

Eat DOO DOO Joe Conason and Eric Alterman!!!!!!

[The South Texan]

I guess Uncle Walter just discovered that snow is white too.

[finnman69]

Two chumps who are full of crapola.

[BenLurkin]

Cronkite is a lying piece of left wing scum (In my opinion of course).

This creep, IMO, KNOWS he intentionally advanced communist interests over American interests but wants to hide behind the ancient Marxiast lie that it is for the "little guy".

He is an evil old bastard (Again, IMHO).

[TUX]

I looked up the word TREASON:

Betrayal of country: violation of the allegiance owed by a person to his or her own country, for example, by aiding an enemy.

Unfortunatly this fits many anti-american journalist.

[Phantom Lord]

We [journalists] reached our intellectual adulthood with daily close-ups of the inequality in a nation that was founded on the commitment to equality for all.

That would be equality before the law Walter. Not equality of opportunity, nor outcome.

So we are inclined to side with the powerless rather than the powerful. If that is what makes us liberals so be it, just as long as . . . we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism.

What would those "ideals of good journalism" be? I thought the ideals of journalism was to report what happened. No more, no less.

[Tank-FL]

Incidentally, I looked up the definition of "liberal" in a Random House dictionary. It gave the synonyms for "liberal" as "progressive," "broad-minded," "unprejudiced," "beneficent." The antonyms it offered: "reactionary" and "intolerant." I have always suspected those fine folks at Random House of being liberals. You just can't trust anybody these days.

Of course you old jerk! What did you think you cronies woul say?

[spectacularbid2003]

It only took the "most trusted man in America" 86 years to tell the truth about the liberal media.

[Joe Brower]

"fiscal conservative and a social liberal"

TRANSLATION: LIBERAL

"progressive"

TRANSLATION: MARXIST

Now that we've cleared that up...

[coloradan]

So we are inclined to side with the powerless rather than the powerful. If that is what makes us liberals so be it, just as long as . . . we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism.

Lying sack of S#it! "Liberals" side with the police and government when it comes to citizens owning their own guns. They are not the "powerless" as Cronkite would have you believe.

[pabianice]

No doubt written aboard his 100-foot sailing yacht...

[Held_to_Ransom]

There is some remnant of truth there, but the roots of pregressive journalism were also not infrequently mired in muck raking mountains out of mole-hills.

In any case, modern media journalism has long since ceased to journalism to become an advertising medium with the fundametal selling roles played by actors, not thinkers.

[Common Tator]

Walter again is clueless.

Did you ever notice that people tend to go into a line of work that involves things they like?

News Reporters promote and protect government for the same reason Sports Reporters promote and protect sports. They are its biggest fans.

Calling for limited government and reduced spending to a news reporter is like calling for fewer games an fewer players to a sports reporter. Sports reporters are inherently pro sports. News reporters are inherently pro government. It is people doing jobs they like.

News reporters are nearly always in-favor of bigger government. They are in favor of finding more things for government to do. If a government activity fails it needs more money and better players.... The game, i.e. government, is never at fault.

It is interesting to have Walter explain liberal bias having its roots in covering crime.

Cronkite thinks an early career of covering crime is what makes reporters side with the criminals.

That tells you all you need know about Walter Cronkite!

Does it not follow that covering rape in the white house late in a career makes reporters side with the rapist?

Would covering America's wars make reporters favor our enemies?

Sounds like Walter thinks so!!!

[Mr. Jazzy]

Well said!

[pittsburgh gop guy]

"fiscal conservative and a social liberal"

My take on people who say that is that they like to party, but don't want to pay for it. ©pgg

As for Cronkite, he is a :

[Mr. Bird]

Basically I am a fiscal conservative and a social liberal

Impossible. "Social liberals" wish to expand programs for the benefit of the poor, oppressed, disenfranchised, etc. Essentially they wish to increase the size and scope of government. You cannot do this while being fiscally prudent. They are contradictory notions, and Cronkite knows it. He's copping out. Why isn't he dead yet?

[pittsburgh gop guy]

"Why isn't he dead yet?"

the devil doesn't want him.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

"Walter is a liberal?"

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

"Psssst! Wally's a liberal, pass it on!"

[Common Tator]

Impossible. "Social liberals" wish to expand programs for the benefit of the poor, oppressed, disenfranchised, etc. Essentially they wish to increase the size and scope of government. You cannot do this while being fiscally prudent. They are contradictory notions, and Cronkite knows it

Have you noticed that Cronkite sounds a lot like Arnie? Both are Social Liberal and Fiscal conservatives. To the voters of California, I say if you liked Walter you will love Arnie.

There are two ways to neutralize a poltical party. One is to defeat it at the polls. The other is to join it,take it over,then remake it with opposite views.