You see, there was a time, back before talk radio, the Internet and Free Republic, that even conservatism_IS_compassion hadn't seen through the liberal spin inherent in journalism. When they called themselves "objective" with their mighty microphones, most all of us were gulled into assuming that they meant it!The beginning of the end was the Carter era, when Accuracy In Media (Reed Irvine) convinced me of "bias in the media." I soon got bored with the endless tales of the same old same-old, and struggled to answer the obvious question, why is the media biased? It took years--nay, decades--to begin to clear my head of the marketing (i.e., propaganda) of journalism.
But at least at his age Red Wally can't last too much longer. ;}