Yes, many Freepers will have issues at the way the journalists he featured chose to perform their jobs (biased to the extreme even at the expense of their journalistic integrity, for starters), but nobody can deny Hewitt his phenomenal achievement in creating the genre. For many years, Hewitt's show was a veritable institution in this country - more influential than any of his copycat competitors could ever dream of becoming.
With my ignorance identified, can you tell me why the hostility about this show from a right wing perspective? How did it favor left over right?
Also, Walter Cronkite was retired before I think I was born but he is hated by the right yet when he died the History or Discovery channel (I can't recall) showed a documentary of his life from Cronkite's memories and in it Cronkite was called biased for Nixon against Kennedy during that election. In fact it was declared by Kennedy that Cronkite hated him and had it in him (per the show).
Was it that Cronkite turned against the Vietnam war? But that is confusing to a young person like me because Nixon promised to end the Vietnam war and Johnson was president at the time Cronkite declared the war was not winnable.
So if you or any reader can help me out on this I would be much obliged.
If you lived through such events I am envious of your first hand accounts and would love to hear them.
Much thanks.