[dfwgator]

I’d go even further back to Murrow’s “Harvest of Shame.”

Every journalist then wanted to “Change the World.”

[awelliott]

I’d go even further back to Murrow’s “Harvest of Shame.” journalist then wanted to “Change the World.”

No argument - you could even consider Walter Duranty's coverage of Utopia, known to sane people as the Soviet Union. However, it seemed that they really became emboldened when they figured out they could destroy administrations.