W. Smith
“Blunder” implies an unintentional foolish act.
FAKE & INACCURATE..................This is satire, right? /s
If alive today, Mr. Cronkite would without a doubt be mortified to see how far American journalism has fallen.
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If he were alive today, he could try to explain his dishonest coverage of the Vietnam war.
I say we waterboard him until he fesses up to everything he’s reported that might be a lie.
“Blunder”?
Habitual lying is not a “blunder”.
... none delivers a stronger punch to the gut than when the poster boy of American journalism is found to be no more than a highly paid liar.
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People who will tell the truth are a dime a dozen. Liberals and other shady people will pay top dollar for an accomplished liar.
Whether or not the author knows the difference between a rock band and a magazine, a Townhall editor should know that Mick Jagger didn’t unravel in Charlottesville.
“...without doubt, Mr. Cronkite would be mortified to see how far journalism has fallen...”
In 1968, after the Tet Offensive, Mr. Cronkite reported that the war was lost. He said so in light of the offensive being a failure and the American attempt to repel it being so successful.
There was no apology to all the young men who lost their lives in the victory that was cast as a loss.
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.
The “American People” were fed a line of pap that was glaringly specious yet the cosmeticians dressed it up as the truth.
IMHO
They now have half of what CBS News used to have before the internet exposed the Emperors' ding-a-lings.
George Patton would have slapped Williams, Rather and Cronkite as fouling the honor of valid warriors.
"You're going back to the front my friend. And I am personally going to put you in the lead chopper."
“Blunder”? Is that what we call manufacturing a false account, a blunder? Is that the legal term for premeditated lying? They could at least call it marketing, then we would know to identify the falsifying for financial gain.
The “Main Stream Media” is not interested in simply reporting the “who, what, when and why” of a story.
They are instead interested in molding public opinion to support their socialist goals. They are no different then Pravda in the old Soviet Union.
Anything (or anyone) that disagrees with them are destroyed and if can not be destroyed demonized.
What is true does not even enter the equation with them.
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 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.