Actually, it goes back to the 1950's, documented by muckraking author Vance Packard in The Opinionmakers in the 1960's. The Columbia School of Journalism surveys their students annually, and one of the questions asked is why they entered journalism. The political motive became evident in the 1950's, and it had increased to a majority in the 1960's. The proportion has increased to more than 90% since he wrote his book (as shown in periodical articles addressing the same subject that have been published since then), and now the vast majority of working journalists are politically motivated and overwhelmingly liberal, thus poisoning the well of public opinion against traditional American values. It's amazing we aren't France already, so strong is the tilt toward moral anomie, internationalism and socialism in media.
Actually, it goes back to the 1950's, documented by muckraking author Vance Packard in The Opinionmakers in the 1960's. The Columbia School of Journalism surveys their students annually, and one of the questions asked is why they entered journalism. The political motive became evident in the 1950's, and it had increased to a majority in the 1960's. The proportion has increased to more than 90% since he wrote his book (as shown in periodical articles addressing the same subject that have been published since then), and now the vast majority of working journalists are politically motivated and overwhelmingly liberal, thus poisoning the well of public opinion against traditional American values. It's amazing we aren't France already, so strong is the tilt toward moral anomie, internationalism and socialism in media.
I'll have to check out Packard. I know that he was the most popular journalist in America for a while, and he coined the term "planned obsolescence," which I think was hype. (He acted as though people bought new cars all the time, because the cars weren't built to last, rather than that people could AFFORD new cars every few years.)