Comments on: Cronkite, opinion journalism, and a changing press: Part II https://thenewneo.com/2009/05/05/cronkite-opinion-journalism-and-a-changing-press-part-ii/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 30 Oct 2015 20:03:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Wolla Dalbo https://thenewneo.com/2009/05/05/cronkite-opinion-journalism-and-a-changing-press-part-ii/#comment-108600 Thu, 07 May 2009 12:49:48 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/05/05/cronkite-opinion-journalism-and-a-changing-press-part-ii/#comment-108600 So, I guess Cronkite was able to convince himself he did the right thing, so as to shield himself from his very real, direct responsibility for all the subsequent death and destruction visited on South Vietnam–to include the reeducation camps, executions and the boat people.

]]> By: Nolanimrod https://thenewneo.com/2009/05/05/cronkite-opinion-journalism-and-a-changing-press-part-ii/#comment-108591 Thu, 07 May 2009 07:04:33 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/05/05/cronkite-opinion-journalism-and-a-changing-press-part-ii/#comment-108591 As to how effective Tet was, militarily it was VERY effective. It was a complete American victory. Almost all the Viet Kong were killed. Almost all of them. After that it was pretty much all NVA.

]]> By: Nolanimrod https://thenewneo.com/2009/05/05/cronkite-opinion-journalism-and-a-changing-press-part-ii/#comment-108590 Thu, 07 May 2009 06:59:41 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/05/05/cronkite-opinion-journalism-and-a-changing-press-part-ii/#comment-108590 The press got Katrina completely, insanely wrong and there was nobody dropping bombs or severed limbs flying around.

]]> By: Assistant Village Idiot https://thenewneo.com/2009/05/05/cronkite-opinion-journalism-and-a-changing-press-part-ii/#comment-108447 Tue, 05 May 2009 19:46:40 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/05/05/cronkite-opinion-journalism-and-a-changing-press-part-ii/#comment-108447 So, Cronkite felt discouraged, and Cronkite felt betrayed, and therefore arrogantly concluded that he represented the American people in this.

A little less narcissism, and things might have been different.

]]> By: Wolla Dalbo https://thenewneo.com/2009/05/05/cronkite-opinion-journalism-and-a-changing-press-part-ii/#comment-108443 Tue, 05 May 2009 19:27:23 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/05/05/cronkite-opinion-journalism-and-a-changing-press-part-ii/#comment-108443 I have an extraordinarily skeptical view of the MSM–which I regard as the equivalent of PRAVDA at the height of the old Soviet Union–and I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who wrote, over 200 years ago, that,

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:224

Miraculously, my wife, who is very Liberal, as I am Conservative, recently acknowledged to me that–after I pointed out some very obvious lies–she has come to the realization that CNN, the Washington Post and other MSM sources cannot be relied on to report all the facts or to tell the truth.

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