Another one I am saving some kidney space for.
Believe it or not,but he admitted to a PBS show about him a few years back that he purposely distorted and slanted the news because "it was best for America"! The interviewer nailed him about the reporting of Bull Connners and the "Freedom Marchers" in Alabama,and Cronkite admitted they were careful to edit the film footage to only show what they wanted shown. If you ever see these old newsreels again,notice how all the black marchers the dogs go after are wearing "church suits" without the jackets. Look at the white shirts and ties. Know why? Because they had taken their jackets off to slap the dogs in the face to get them to attack. They had film of this,but destroyed it because they wanted everybody to think the attacks were unprovoked racial attacks.
Southerners were paranoid about the Northern press getting involved, they knew there was going to be a slant......but this is fresh to me. I never even heard that, and you say it was on PBS? It tends to prove what I later came to suspect, by the way, that the entire Civil Rights Movement was an exercise in "kick your sister" and bringing out the worst in people, not the best.
Thanks for that info, I never knew that.