The leftist bias was easier to conceal; for most folks in the '60s, NBC|ABC|CBS (or their local paper) was IT ... the only source of information. Walter Cronkite (for example) could be lying through his rotten teeth every day, and nobody outside the business or outside the event would ever know.
Some time back in the early 1980s, I participated in a couple of events that got news coverage. Said news coverage was barely recognizable. It really crystallized for me that the media were lying their faces off.
“The leftist bias was easier to conceal; for most folks in the ‘60s, NBC|ABC|CBS (or their local paper) was IT ... the only source of information. Walter Cronkite (for example) could be lying through his rotten teeth every day, and nobody outside the business or outside the event would ever know.”
Good points. Reed Irvine started Accuracy in Media back around 1970... a valuable little newsletter that was maybe the first outside source on the Right to keep watch on press and the big networks.
But if you didn’t know of them, and 99.9% of the public wouldn’t, it was hard to find good criticism of the media’s duplicity and partisanship. You could suspect it but you’d be pretty much on your own. Today with the internet and sites like FR the press has a much harder time hiding what they are up to.