Uncle Walter was a stealth Commie. The new crop of so called Journalists wear their inner Stalin on their sleeves.
Nobody got wise to Uncle Walter until he was six feet under.
“Nobody got wise to Uncle Walter until he was six feet under.”
For his vile reporting about the Vietnam War he should have been executed, along with the people in our government that got us into it in the first place. The thought that that $hit hole of a country became the “killing field” for 52,000 of our best ( including my cousin) should be cause enough to round up anyone who’s still alive who put us there, and hang them. In hindsight, we haven’t been involved in a war worth fighting since WWII. And I wished we had had Trump as our President when the Korean “conflict” started, because we wouldn’t have had 70 years and three Kims to deal with.
Nobody got wise to Uncle Walter until he was six feet under.
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Cronkite was canonized and glorified by all of the media, academe and the general pubic for decades.
“The most trusted voice in America” was not exactly stealth. His protectors knew and agreed with his loyalties. It just took over 30 years for the public to catch on and break through the hagiographies.
Being fed a lifetime of doublespeak makes us all dupes. It is only with the passing of the WWII/Depression Generation that people could break the spell. Even today, there are so-called conservatives/Republicans who will only believe MSM sources.
Those who taught the current news purveyors did an excellent job.So did the networks and publishers. Now, they all have an operational safe space that is also nearly all there is in terms of news sources.
The Western world has been propagandized to accept collective guilt and agree that their own slavery and death is an acceptable atonement.
Not only do we see how the Nazis accomplished genocide,we get to experience it up close and personal.
Archie Bunker called Uncle Walter a commie on national television. Now, the Archie character was supposed to be a buffoon, but he turned out to be incredibly popular. And the script was a liberal's interpretation of middle America's beliefs, but probably had a current of truth. So, I don't think everyone was duped by Walter Cronkite.