LOL
You were involved with 'Nam?
I've only gazed upon the MSM's works since '65 or so to catch a clue on their next scam. Otherwise, they're an Absolute Negative Barometer:
Whatever they say is BS or designed to do you harm.
(Some I've heard hold that the US media is responsible for more RVN/US MIL casualties than the VC, North VN, China and Red damn Army combined....and for civilian casualties in SEA there is no contest at all.)
YMMV
I think I had my awakening to what scumbags the Left was at an early age...the whole peace movement, and what they were saying about men like my dad and my friends dads...it really pissed me off. And the media was driving it even then.
It wasn't until some decades later I realized what a piece of crap Walter Cronkite was...watching the video by Charlton Heston of the Media's treatment of the Tet Offensive really turned the worm for me. The media's (and our country's) treatment of our military and Veterans enraged me, but I will always...always be grateful to Ronald Reagan for making military service an honorable thing. I was still serving when "No Dogs or Sailors on the grass" was still a typical mentality.
I stopped regularly watching the news around the time of Watergate, and by the early Nineties, I dropped off the cliff. By the end of that decade, I stopped watching television altogether. I think the last series I watched on television was ER.
I cannot even stomach television now. Just walking by one that is on nearly makes my blood pressure spike and fills me with disgust. Sigh. I view people who watch it as total morons.
I watch and rent movies on the screen now, and I have been going further and back, plumbing the depths of old movies now. Most of the crap coming out of Hollywood now is pathetic, though they do have one now and again that isn't bad. I thought they did a good job with "Midway".
I presume by your screen name you served back then-
Thank you, and Welcome Home, FRiend.