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.
Yeah,it was one part of a series by PBS that was titled something like "The Media in the 20th Century",or some such nonsense. Cronkite had a whole segment devoted to him because he had the tag of "the most trusted man in America",and the PBS show was out to set the record straight.
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.
What it really boiled down to was a family fight within the Dim Party between who was going to control it (and the country),the left or the right. Since MOST southern Dims were WAAAY to the right of most of what we laughingly call Republicans today,it was neccessary for the Dims in the northeast and their running mates to demonize the STRONG southern Dims. They used the power of gooberment and the media to do this. Watch the movie the left ranted and raved about "Mississippi Burning" for a good belly laugh. The Dims were over the roof about how "real" it was,yet what it really did is show their lies and slander. One part has the Feeb sent to look for the missing civil wrongs workers talking to the local sheriff about them being missing,and the local sheriff says something about "maybe they went fishing?". The Feeb replies,"These men are both trained agitators,and they had orders to check in every day." One was a obvious Jew with long hair and a beard,and the other was a black man.BOTH were riding around in Missippi and Alabama in a brand new car with plenty of money to spend,trying their damndest to stir up trouble. Basically,the Feebs SENT them there to be murdered. This does NOT excuse their murders in any way,but it's obvious wnat was going on.
Later the head Feed sends a flunkie off to rent them motel rooms,and the flunkie comes back and says "Nobody will rent us rooms". The head Feeb says "Buy the motel. We have a unlimited budget from Washington".
BTW,I will ALWAYS believe it was the FBI behind the church bombings and other nonsense. I don't believe they did it,but I will always believe FBI agents whispered the ideas into the heads of the mental defectives they found there,and those guys went out and did it.