They called it a win on the left when LBJ decided not to run.
They hounded Nixon into resignation. So, in the mind of the moonbats, both were successful coups.
That was then, when they had a media we all still believed.
>>They called it a win on the left when LBJ decided not to run.
They hounded Nixon into resignation. So, in the mind of the moonbats, both were successful coups. <<
A win for dems, sure. A coup? I wouldn't use that term myself.
It's not your father's media. . .
Consumers of news now understand that, as Eastland says, "News is a thing made, a product, and that media with certain beliefs and values once made the news and then presented it in authoritative terms, as though beyond criticism. Thus did Walter Cronkite famously end his newscasts, 'And that's the way it is.' That way, period."
When, after the misreported Tet offensive of 1968 (a U.S. military victory described as a crushing defeat), Cronkite declared Vietnam a "stalemate," he spoke, as Mindich says, to "a captive audience." Nearly 80 percent of television sets in use at the dinner hour were tuned to one of the three network newscasts, and Cronkite had the largest share.
If that had been the broadcast marketplace in 2004, John Kerry would be president: The three networks reported the Swift boat veterans attacks on Kerry only after coverage of the attacks by cable news and talk radio forced Kerry to respond. The networks were very interested in charges pertaining to a Vietnam-era story about George W. Bush's alleged dereliction of National Guard duties -- until bloggers, another manifestation of new, small and nimble media, shredded it.