The “Press” hasnt been the press in 20+ years, they are Democrat activists
I just took a poll...It came out that 100% think the press has treated President Trump unfair and 0% think he has been treated fairly...
The “Press” hasnt been the press in 20+ years, they are Democrat activists
More realistically, it has been 84 years. 1934 is the year the FCC was created, FDR put his campaign crony, Herbert L. Pettey, in charge, and Petty made sure the new radio networks only took a pro-Roosevelt stance. News that criticized the Roosevelt administration was taken to be acting against the “public interest”.
This went on for a full decade, making sure the new mass media would have a solid “Progressive” ideology.
It did not take long for broadcasters to get the message. NBC, for example, announced that it was limiting broadcasts “contrary to the policies of the United States government.” CBS Vice President Henry A. Bellows said that “no broadcast would be permitted over the Columbia Broadcasting System that in any way was critical of any policy of the Administration.” He elaborated “that the Columbia system was at the disposal of President Roosevelt and his administration and they would permit no broadcast that did not have his approval.” Local station owners and network executives alike took it for granted, as Editor and Publisher observed, that each station had “to dance to Government tunes because it is under Government license.” Some dissident radio commentators, such as Father Charles Coughlin and Boake Carter, gained wide audiences. But radio as a whole was firmly pro-Roosevelt—and both Coughlin and Carter were eventually forced off the air for pushing the envelope too far.