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To: LouAvul
I can’t ever remember a time when media were “politically neutral.”

True to a large extent. But there used to be a few paragraphs in most stories with "A GOP spokesman disagreed and said..." or "A supporter stood outside the headquarters and said he still was in favor...." These would be relegated to minor coverage but there was actual coverage, usually. And very few ever pushed their personally biased viewpoint editorial statements at the beginning of a "news" story. On page twenty, maybe, but not on the "news" pages. Now they say "In another unsupported by facts tweet, President Trump again misstated the...."

True, Walter Cronkite (blatant Dem/socialist supporter as he later reminisced) had a puff piece, upbeat, adulatory interview of Jimmy Carter in his CBS convention booth and another of Andrew Young comparing Carter to eminent Civil Rights leaders. Just like today: cutesy questions to make Chelsea laugh and interview with Ivanka to jab and prod her into getting angry about the slanders they demanded she admit to about her father. Disgraceful.

11 posted on 07/12/2020 11:21:49 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: frank ballenger

Cronkite exposed what he was when he announced we had lost the war in 1968 (Tet).


14 posted on 07/12/2020 11:35:50 AM PDT by Bikkuri
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