re: Old Farts of the Poli Board - How have the news channels shifted over the years?

I can remember when the only television news you got was the local news at 5, 6, and 10 and the major network news after the local. CNN was around in the 80's but a lot of people still didn't have cable. Newspapers were considered to be leaning one way or the other. I guess is was during W's first term that I noticed it being said that Fox was right leaning, etc. I don't know if it was because the left was buttsore over the 2000 election, or if it was said long before that and it was only then I noticed it.

My old man always said Cronkite was a Commie but at least he kept it to himself (except during the Tet Offensive).

EDIT: Tigerfoot nailed it.