[livius]

The senator’s actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tells us something ugly about American public life.

It tells us that we are totally manipulated by a media which is nothing but the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. Americans have no morality anymore and simply think and do as their betters tell them.

[falcon1966]

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[madinmadtown]

Old Joe Kennedy may not have been Satan incarnate, but he understood and used the Old Sod's ways as well as any man.
Old Joe Kennedy bribed reporters for years with money, mortgages, women and all the vices and in return the reporter sold his soul to Kennedy to write a favorable article about his sons or a company that Kennedy would exploit for unseemly profit.
Once the reporter's soul was sold, it would never be redeemed and was understood to do Old Joe's bidding forever. It was truly a devil's agreement.

[Thommas]

Mary Jo was one of the little people, a servant, a dispensable waif. The Pelosis, Reids, Kennedys, et. al., play the propaganda music from the score of compassion, regard and servitude to the hoi poli; but, they hold all the little people in abject contempt and harbor utmost hatred for any who stand in the way of their retention of power.

[Milhous]

America’s TV networks are creepily reminiscent of those plays Sam Shepard used to write about some dysfunctional inbred hardscrabble Appalachian household where there’s a baby buried in the backyard but everyone agreed years ago never to mention it. - Steyn

The wheels come off of CBS Camelot coverage as myth devolves into self parody

Cronkite was back on the air later that afternoon, and by the end of the day the decision had been made, by all three networks, to suspend all commercials and entertainment programs until after Kennedy's funeral. Thus, by nightfall, the nation was locked into what, in retrospect, still stands out as the most extraordinary weekend in the history of television.

With the decision to turn continuous air time over to the network news departments, TV journalism was suddenly faced with with a challenge far greater than any it had previously experienced. Because of the triumph it achieved in meeting that challenge, television news would never be regarded in quite the same way again. It is no exaggeration to say that during those four days in November 1963, TV journalism came into is full maturity. What's more, its performance that weekend provided a clear glimpse into the future. In the years ahead, television would come to be recognized as the dominant voice in American journalism, the prime source from which the majority of Americans received their news. - Air Time

Four Days in November Part One

Ted Kennedy's Last Journey