Back in the day, this dude would just appear on TV and everything he said would be automatically considered true, since he had integrity. Why has the news declined so much since then?
This fag lied about Jim Jones because he was a friend. He's just as bad as the rest, every journo is the same.
>>221410190information travels so much faster these days and everyone wants to be first so they just post without verifying anything.
>>221410231>He's just as bad as the rest, every journo is the same.This. He was a piece of shit, fuck him
>>221410190>integrityThere’s half your answer. Media of the 50s-70s was still in part beholden to the powers that be (think Vietnam reporting before the Pentagon papers) but they were a lot closer to the fourth estate concept. That is to say, we had a truly independent media. What ended up happening was the establishment of a market in media. Each individual network began to panderto a specific demographic. The shameless pursuit of capital, connections, and control resulted in a fractured landscape. Competition between networks created the idea that news can be distrusted. Add on the granularity of the internet, and it’s a runaway train. Thousands of “independent” journalists with unknown funding sources using data to micro-target kansas city anti-vaccine pro-abortion moms. No putting the cat in the bag.
>>221410190they just had better information control
He was a lying fucking commie the whole time. Especially about the Tet Offensive. Glad he's dead.
>>221410190A combination of things, including:> He had spend decades never expressing an opinion on the news he was reporting, this made him impartial and trustworthy in the eyes of viewers> in those years, every single word spoken on television went through a handful of editors, fact-checkers, and standards-and-practices peopleIn todays 24-hour news cycle, people have to go off-script to fill the time. And when they do, that's when the bias, the lies, the errors, and the bad journalism sneaks in
>>221410421Yeah, man. The people didn't lie before capitalism.
>>221410190He was a lying piece of shit he was lying about vietnam, he was a fucking lier who lies, Jimmy did the best he could with the hostages, fuck this fucking fag all journalists and news outlets need to be lynched
>>221411474>the lying is accidentalYou can't open your whore mouths without lying.
>>221410190News can still be trusted. CNN, MSNBC, etc. are all still great sources of information.Just don't watch right wing propaganda like Fox.
>>221411531those are compromised too, my friend. a right-wing zionist billionaire bought all those networks. truth needs to be bred on a local level and passed on through grassroots orgs, preferably away from the hands of landlords and their ilk
>>221410190I think Trump should start signing off on his tweets with "AND THAT'S THE WAY IT IS" for a while.
The Watergate scandal showed corruption at the highest levels of government The Hunter Biden Laptop scandal showed corruption at the highest levels of the media. It's no surprise that it took years for the New York Times and Washington Post to admit the laptop was real. It's no surprise every big tech platform banned the sitting president for the last 2 weeks of his first administration
