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Would Walter Cronkite make it in today's news environment?
Posted on 11/10/18 at 1:27 am
Posted on 11/10/18 at 1:27 am
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Posted on 11/10/18 at 1:31 am to hawgfaninc
lol revisionist history and nostalgia... people called him Pinko Cronkite
Posted on 11/10/18 at 2:26 am to efrad
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lol revisionist history and nostalgia... people called him Pinko Cronkite
In truth he was a flaming Liberal. But he didn't show it in the reading of the news.
In the old days, it was much more subtle. You could still put out biased news by picking and choosing WHAT you were doing to report.
That is still done today, but in a much more obvious manner.
Posted on 11/10/18 at 2:59 am to efrad
My mom has always been a conservative, and told me it was sometimes obvious Cronkite was liberal, but only rarely did it show in his broadcasts.
Posted on 11/10/18 at 3:20 am to hawgfaninc
ARCHIE: "What channel is the CBS News on?"
EDITH: "Channel 9. The one we don't watch because you said Walter Cronkite is a Communist."
ARCHIE: "I never said that!... The man's not completely red."
EDITH: "Channel 9. The one we don't watch because you said Walter Cronkite is a Communist."
ARCHIE: "I never said that!... The man's not completely red."
Posted on 11/10/18 at 3:36 am to hawgfaninc
Yesterday I posted this clip of Dan Rather at a Nixon press conference in 1974. As harmless as it seems today, there was a huge uproar about it at the time, and some people even wanted Rather fired. Not only was he not fired, but his silly "comeback" made him a hero to the left. That was considered "disrespect" in the old days.
I haven't watched TV news in 10 years, and haven't watched CNN in perhaps 20. So I had actually never seen Jim Acosta before the recent PC. To put it mildly, I was astounded by his behavior. He wasn't simply asking a question. He was making a speech, like he was addressing a Beto fundraiser.
That's the difference. In the Cronkite era the bias had to be a bit subtler. Today, saying CNN is biased is like saying the DNC is biased.
I haven't watched TV news in 10 years, and haven't watched CNN in perhaps 20. So I had actually never seen Jim Acosta before the recent PC. To put it mildly, I was astounded by his behavior. He wasn't simply asking a question. He was making a speech, like he was addressing a Beto fundraiser.
That's the difference. In the Cronkite era the bias had to be a bit subtler. Today, saying CNN is biased is like saying the DNC is biased.
Posted on 11/10/18 at 3:43 am to Kafka
Today Cronkite would be Acosta
Posted on 11/10/18 at 5:45 am to hawgfaninc
Cronkite gave his listeners credit for having at least a basic level of reasoning skills. CNN, et al, assume they're talking to pre-schoolers.
Posted on 11/10/18 at 5:47 am to hawgfaninc
Cronkite was fairly progressive and pushed an agenda. I'm not going to say he was anti-American, but he definitely took sides and he lost the Vietnam War.
Just as BLM is based on an outright lie, the loss in Vietnam is based on a lie - that we "lost" the Tet Offensive (we didn't) and Cronkite said the war was lost (it wasn't, we won that war.)
SO, there is all of that. Cronkite would still be fairly pink, even today. He was really pink back in the day.
Just as BLM is based on an outright lie, the loss in Vietnam is based on a lie - that we "lost" the Tet Offensive (we didn't) and Cronkite said the war was lost (it wasn't, we won that war.)
SO, there is all of that. Cronkite would still be fairly pink, even today. He was really pink back in the day.
Posted on 11/10/18 at 6:12 am to hawgfaninc
Toward the end of his career, Cronkite began injecting his personal opinions into his broadcasts. The leftist takeover of the MSM can be traced to the Vietnam War period, shortly before his retirement.
This post was edited on 11/10/18 at 6:21 am
Posted on 11/10/18 at 6:34 am to efrad
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people called him Pinko Cronkite
Yep. He was just more subtle about it than today's in-your-face Commie reporters.
Posted on 11/10/18 at 6:36 am to LongueCarabine
Cronkite was a known CIA plant. He’s the big bird of the old Project Mockingbird
Posted on 11/10/18 at 6:39 am to BigJake
Cronkite started all this. He started injecting opinion into the news.
Posted on 11/10/18 at 7:31 am to hawgfaninc
Cronkite would fit right in. He was no objective journalist; he was just better at covering his Leftist leanings than folks do today.
Posted on 11/10/18 at 7:53 am to hawgfaninc
That man was as far left as they are now.
Posted on 11/10/18 at 7:54 am to hawgfaninc
he was a commie. he hid it better than Acosta. Look @ Dan Rather he is a POS commie.
This post was edited on 11/10/18 at 7:55 am
Posted on 11/10/18 at 8:10 am to hawgfaninc
this bastard was a globalist to the core....he is the voice behind the owl in the bohemian grove occult ceremony...this bastard was no friend to the usa....he was one of the main proponents for a one world government, by his own words
Posted on 11/10/18 at 8:15 am to Ace Midnight
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Posted on 11/10/18 at 8:19 am to Lakeboy7
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saw first hand it was a clusterfrick
War is messy and civilians don't always get the big picture. You should know that.
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said same
The frick he did. He didn't say it was fricked up. He said the war was already lost. And we won the war. The Watergate scandal lost the peace.
The United States of America WON the Vietnam War in every objective measurement. Period.
Posted on 11/10/18 at 8:24 am to hawgfaninc
Bull Shat!
Walter Cronkite would have been crying alligator tears when Hillary lost. The MSM was leftist back then. There was not social media to report it.
When Nixon won the republican nomination all the nightly anchors had tears for weeks.
Walter Cronkite would have been crying alligator tears when Hillary lost. The MSM was leftist back then. There was not social media to report it.
When Nixon won the republican nomination all the nightly anchors had tears for weeks.
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