Posted on 02/10/2015 10:08:37 AM PST by Kaslin
WE may disagree but he was no early supporter.
IMHO
They want to keep it in this realm,
not in the realm of “yeah, we admit that we leftists are deceitful in the pursuit of our agenda”.
“”Eric Severied or Howard K Smith or even Huntley and Brinkley would be considered righties compared to Cooper, Maddow, Soledad or that buxom Robin Meade”
Not Chet Huntley. He was vicious in his portrayal of Goldwater and conservatives who supported him. Huntley would fit right in with today’s news vermin.
Howard K Smith’s son Jack was a private at the Battle of Ia Drang Valley, one of the more ferocious engagements in the war. His memoir is well worth reading:
http://www.mishalov.com/death_ia_drang_valley.html
Walter Cronkite, long-time anchor of the “CBS Evening News”, became known as ‘the most trusted man in America’ by carefully delivering precise information to his tens of millions of viewers. Whether it was his coverage of World War II or the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Cronkite’s viewers relied on him to deliver an accurate account of significant events. If alive today, Mr. Cronkite would without a doubt be mortified to see how far American journalism has fallen.
I stopped reading after this, no point to it.
I stopped listening to Walter after Tet.
I submit that Cronkite was American journalism's fall from grace. Something changed for him that took him from a dispassionate reader to an advocate, and it was at that point the the real power of the media was revealed, its ability to demoralize, to recast facts into a false narrative, to move the political class to action. Heady business, crack cocaine to a nascent Fourth Estate, and I entertain a doubt, based on his earlier career, if Cronkite would have been pleased at how it's turned out. But the damage is done, and the composition of the current crop of media celebrities - one hesitates to call them "journalists" - demonstrates just how precipitous, and how low, the fall has come to be.
“The press then was just as biased, maybe more so, back then. The only difference between then and now was that the cosmeticians did such a good job in making it look good.”
I agree. In that era the big three news broadcasts all originated in New York City and they reflected the liberal culture of that city. Only Brinkley was elsewhere, based in Washington DC, but his partner Huntley was in NYC.
I think I would rate Brinkley and Severeid as the best of the bunch. Huntley and Cronkite were on the left. Cronkite was found to have been helping the antiwar left modify their demonstrations for maximum impact on the public. I saw Cronkite at a McGovern rally back in 1972. I figured he was as much a camp follower as a reporter.
They’ve been at it since the Russian Revolution.
World Communism was their goal and it still is. (Communism didn’t die. It feigned death and is coming back with a new camouflage job.
IMHO
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