President Nixon warns against the “Media Elitist Complex”

Agree with your general sentiment here = Nixon was really one of our greatest presidents - notwithstanding the gold reserve decision. (and I don't understand enough about financial qualities at that level - but I know I didn't like it.)

As for the media bias = yes - that was my first observation of purposeful distortion of the 'news.' I went to Pomona CA as soon as I graduated LSU in 1960. Stayed there one year before I transferred to St.Louis MO.

I was on the side of Nixon in the '60 election and thought he deserved to win and was aware of the charges wrt 'cheating in Illinois and Texas' - but accepted his generous statement that = "it would cause a constitutional crisis to contest it"

So he went to California and ran for Gov. In St. Louis I noticed a front page Post Dispatch article about his race in CA. - it depicted Nixon at some informal street gathering where he was talking with a group regular people.

The photo was an odd composition - someone had to climb up onto something to get the elevation required - it depicted Nixon from the waist up in the midst of a half dozen people in close attention -

just over his head was a street sign

the sign said "DEAD END"

I saw that and thought - "wtf!!! - they did that on PURPOSE!!!!!"

That was my first revelation of news bias - my mother had taught me from infancy = "if they say it in the papers it has to be true."

and I believed it

- til I didn't anymore.

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Good point. My father said Nixon was a good president.

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Nixon empowered China. In hindsight, not the best move.

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Nixon empowered China. In hindsight, not the best move.

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How’s the saying go, “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer”?

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Nixon was a POS! He had many kids killed in Vietnam just to save face and get elected.

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Evidence of how well the media influence had on America.

NO condemnation on LBJ for getting America into that mess, micromanaging the war from Washington, allowing the enemy to have save harbor in Cambodia and North Vietnam, spilling gallons and gallons of American blood to take territory only to relinquish it back, and then retake it again and again spilling more blood in the process.

NAH, let’s put that on Nixon for Linebacker 2, bombing the North back to the negotiating table to get us out of that quagmire that LBJ got us into in the first place, and JFK started with advisors, albeit to a much lesser extent.


YEP…. It worked very well.

holy shitty take mr Cool.

Hence why Woodward and Bernstein are fricking rock stars to the media.

Woodward has done work since then, albeit based on access due to this.

Bernstein is a fricking clown who has been trading on this for decades.

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The Communist media, Eastern Elite hated Nixon because he helped put Alger Hiss, Soviet Spy, in prison.
They never forgave him.

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this never sank in to my consciousness until after how they treated Reagan = the media and the Democrats lost any respect I ever had for them from that point on = and my hatred has deepened every year since.

I have graduated from - they are slanted in their coverage

to - they are absolute evil.

don't know how much worse it could possibly get.

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Taking down the Republican Nixon emboldened the media and they have been after every GOP president since 1974.

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I Man, G Gordan Liddy, told the world, after he was released from prison. The Head of the Communist Party, USA, cared for his family while he was in prison. With condition, he would keep his mouth shut about Watergate.

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standard for presidents but at that time it was a 3 course plater for news media.

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but only served on occasions where it can influence the 'right people'