Once upon a time, there were newspapers on newsprint that you could hold in your hand while you drank coffee and there were typewriters and linotypes and slot desks and copy editors and proofreaders and editors who verified the facts that investigative reporters would dog pup and the lawyer would insure there was no libel involved.
And by eternal vigilance which is the price of freedom, the newspapers, and the radio newspeople watched elected oficials with a certain suspicion .They were no beacons of truth but they tried to do what was best for the country.
I saw it changing in the late 1970s when George HW Bush became Vice president. Or maybe it was the proliferation of the offset and computerized news and TV gained more prominence. We trusted ( almost) Walter Cronkite,Chet Huntley and David Brinkley) and Gabriel Heater & many others-- turns out they were part of Operation Mockingbird or perhaps its predecessor but we didn't sit here and play "count the lies" which passes for 'news" like I did when we still had a TV in the house and when my neighbors turned their TV up loud so I could hear what passes for "news."
There was no TV in my grandparents; house but we would go to the neighbors and watch the news. I also had family members who knew what was happening behind the news and may or my not have been involved..
We also had a huge white plastic German-made Telefunken shortwave radio I could listen to and listen my grandparents did! So did i. The entire world was avaialble on those magic airwaves!
TV news now is gorgeous people reading from the Obama-style teleprompters now more than ever although the old guys used them too.
MSM credibility to me only extends as far as the LOCAL BROADCAST AFFILIATE and they are often amazing!
It's at the NATIONAL level that tings begin to become less transparent and --"let the lies begin!"
I miss the people I worked with at the newspapers where I worked. I miss my sources who were reliable and the ones who drooped hints but told me where to dig and the fun of doing my own research to see what I would find.
I liked the trust that people put in me and when I was asked to
LIE,
I left the MSM.
They do things differently nowadays.
And by eternal vigilance which is the price of freedom, the newspapers, and the radio newspeople watched elected oficials with a certain suspicion .They were no beacons of truth but they tried to do what was best for the country.
I saw it changing in the late 1970s when George HW Bush became Vice president. Or maybe it was the proliferation of the offset and computerized news and TV gained more prominence. We trusted ( almost) Walter Cronkite,Chet Huntley and David Brinkley) and Gabriel Heater & many others-- turns out they were part of Operation Mockingbird or perhaps its predecessor but we didn't sit here and play "count the lies" which passes for 'news" like I did when we still had a TV in the house and when my neighbors turned their TV up loud so I could hear what passes for "news."
There was no TV in my grandparents; house but we would go to the neighbors and watch the news. I also had family members who knew what was happening behind the news and may or my not have been involved..
We also had a huge white plastic German-made Telefunken shortwave radio I could listen to and listen my grandparents did! So did i. The entire world was avaialble on those magic airwaves!
TV news now is gorgeous people reading from the Obama-style teleprompters now more than ever although the old guys used them too.
MSM credibility to me only extends as far as the LOCAL BROADCAST AFFILIATE and they are often amazing!
It's at the NATIONAL level that tings begin to become less transparent and --"let the lies begin!"
I miss the people I worked with at the newspapers where I worked. I miss my sources who were reliable and the ones who drooped hints but told me where to dig and the fun of doing my own research to see what I would find.
I liked the trust that people put in me and when I was asked to
LIE,
I left the MSM.
They do things differently nowadays.