It's crazy to listen to reporters from yesteryear and compare them to today...

Reporters today would not be able to handle Winston Churchill. You could be in the middle of a german bombing raid with milions dying in concentration camp and thousands on the front in the Battle of the Bulge.

Meanwhile Maddow, The View, etc...

"Winston Churchil is a drunk"

"Winston Churchill is mean"

"Churcill made a pass at multiple women"

"Churchill insists in driving his staff like slaves and has no work life balance"

"Churchill is a sexist and racist"

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command of the English language

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English language mastery is one of the main ways I measure a person's intelligence level.

It's a lost art.

The dumbing down of America...sometimes I wonder if it's by design.

Excellent writing skills are a huge advantage in every aspect of life.

Just my $0.02.

ETA: Lol at the irony that I had to fix a typo in this post

I grew up listening to Walter Cronkite and Peter Jennings. Back then the news may not have been good but it was real.

I’m very old school even for 60. I love old radio broadcasts period. Grew up with AM radio listening to sports. Still love when the Braves play an afternoon game or double header, I’m tuned in at work.

I once read "we used to speak the written word, and now we write the spoken word".

Yes Murrow was a lefty as were a lot of media even then.

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Meanwhile Maddow, The View, etc...

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Or Carlson sucking up to Hitler and talking about how great everything is in Germany…….

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TV reporters can hardly tell the details on scene of a minor car wreck without stumbling over their words.

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Or making stuff up for drama.

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I grew up listening to Walter Cronkite and Peter Jennings.

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Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Tom Brokaw, Harry Reasoner and company were who I heard almost daily delivering the news.

Unlike so-called journalists of today who strive to create news to fit their agenda.