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So did the Most Trusted Man in America manipulate the news?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by GuessWho, May 14, 2010.

  1. Brian

    Brian Well-Known Member

    Why, that's...nuanced.

    KILL HIM!!!!

    /21st Century America
     
  2. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Maybe they wanted to hold on to it because they didn't want it known that they were spying on journalists?
     
  3. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    Repressed self-loathing, personified.
     
  4. beardpuller

    beardpuller Active Member

    Along those lines, how did that whole Vietnam thing turn out, anyway? I forget.
     
  5. sportsguydave

    sportsguydave Active Member

    Any of our friends who want to get all high and mighty over this might want to stop and consider what a cesspool of bullshit the 60s-era FBI turned out to be.

    Manipulating the news? Hey, somebody get a Ouija board, contact Walter and tell him Fox has a job offer for him. They've perfected that art.
     
  6. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    Lyndon's ego got in the way of common sense . . . but, hey . . . that was Lyndon.
     
  7. God bless this sanity of perspective.
    Otherwise, let's all of us who aren't qualified to wipe his ass pass judgment on Walter Cronkite. The man was Bill O'Reilly before his time ... apparently.
     
  8. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    And don't forget the clandestine meetings with Huntley and Brinkley and Frank Reynolds too, so they'd all stay on message. It was all a big media conspiracy.
     
  9. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    And Paul Harvey.
     
  10. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    There are a lot of Vietnam vets who blame Cronkite for the US pulling out of the war. Lyndon Johnson made the famous comment about as soon as he saw Cronkite was against the war, he knew he had lost the people's support.
     
  11. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Blame him or thank him? Things might have turned out better if we had stayed?

    It's hard to win a war when you don't know who you're fighting.
     
  12. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Think it might have more to do with the 30,000 deaths by the time cronkite made that announcement.

    History does not serve LBJ very well

    The parallels to Afghanistan are scary.
     
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