I have to admit, even though I held the media and the left in reserve with a grain of salt, part of me said "Back then, things were different. The media didn't lie to us back then, only now..."
Boy, how naiive. I didn't feel betrayed, but I did feel like I had been fed a shovel of shiite growing up. I look at nearly everything I learned with a skeptical eye, now.
Read "Dish" by Jeanette Walls - you want to know about how the media lies and for how long? JFK should have been IMPEACHED!
When I was a little girl, my mother made me watch the Army - McCarthy hearings. I really was too little to understand all of it, but I understood enough and my mother filled in the blanks for me. She, like most Americans back then, was a fierce anti-Commie. Most Americans, no matter WHAT the MSM said then, hated Commies and were FOR McCarthy and what he was attempting to do.