(02-09-2025, 02:21 PM)Jag149 Wrote:

(02-09-2025, 01:05 PM)mikesez Wrote: Cronkite was at least 5 years late when he finally decided to be honest about Vietnam. 
He and the broadcast corporation he served were as self-interested as anyone else.

Since we have brought him up, lets' see what Walter had to say about it. (from his autobiography)

"I am proud to the degree to which we kept our evening news free of bias, although on a subject as controversial as the war, we did not get credit from either side for doing so. The conservatives and government supporters thought we had joined the wild-eyed, 'unpatriotic' liberals. The students and other opponents hounded us as mouthpieces for the establishment."

This sounds about right to me.

Yup. Self-serving. Journalists, spies, and military advisors who actually went out to the countryside of South Vietnam from 1960 to 1963 saw the situation clearly.  They were ignored by both parties because the message was politically inconvenient for both parties at the time.

That's just one example.  They all have biases and blind spots, every single one.

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