Fmr. CBS News boss says ‘liberal-leaning’ media past point of no return to fairness. Next act will

[rangerrebew]

Fmr. CBS News boss says ‘liberal-leaning’ media past point of no return to fairness. Next act will be worse.

May 26, 2020 | Jon Dougherty | Print Article
 

The former president of CBS News noted in a Wall Street Journal column Tuesday that the “liberal-leaning” media has reached a point where its credibility can no longer be salvaged after moving too far to the political Left.

Van Gordon Sauter began his column by noting that roughly 35 years ago he was having lunch with Jeane Kirkpatrick, a Democrat who was appointed by then-President Ronald Reagan, a conservative Republican, to be his foreign policy adviser and, later, his ambassador to the United Nations.

Even back then, Sauter, said, Kirkpatrick complained about the “liberal leaning” media, which the CBS News chief noted was really just a “liberal tilt” that could be fixed.

It turns out that Kirkpatrick was prophetic and Sauter was just wrong.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/05/26/fmr-cbs-news-boss-says-liberal-leaning-media-past-point-of-no-return-to-fairness-next-act-will-be-worse-925923

[aligncare]

Leaning? That building done fell left a long time ago.

[PeteS in CA]

IMO, the "lean" was already happening in 1960, when MSM "reporters" covered up JFK's promiscuous infidelities during the Presidential campaign. 1964, Daisy and LOLITS. 1976, Ford the Klutz. 1980, Reagan the Warmonger. 1992, GHWB and supermarket scanners. 1997 or 1998, pretending Monica's blue dress until it tested positive for Clinton's DNA. 2004-2006, Memogate and Cindy Sheehan. 2008-Present, Obamian lapdoggery. 2015-Present, steroidal TDS. Just a few milestones.

I think MSM lean became a crash and progressive collapse during Clinton's MalAdministration.

[aligncare]

Don’t believe the liberal media.

[mountaineer]

CBS' Walter Cronkite's anti-war stance during the Vietnam War was apparent to anyone who watched, I should think. It really isn't that difficult to present oneself as an unbiased reporter of facts, but it certainly is rare.

[DCPatriot]

CBS' Walter Cronkite's anti-war stance during the Vietnam War was apparent to anyone who watched, I should think. It really isn't that difficult to present oneself as an unbiased reporter of facts, but it certainly is rare.

IIRC, the sentiment I got while watching Cronkite during the war was one of pain and sorrow reporting on more than 53,000 KIA.

Of course, I was 18 to 28 years old at the time.

[Smokin Joe]

IMO, the "lean" was already happening in 1960, when MSM "reporters" covered up JFK's promiscuous infidelities during the Presidential campaign. 1964, Daisy and LOLITS. 1976, Ford the Klutz. 1980, Reagan the Warmonger. 1992, GHWB and supermarket scanners. 1997 or 1998, pretending Monica's blue dress until it tested positive for Clinton's DNA. 2004-2006, Memogate and Cindy Sheehan. 2008-Present, Obamian lapdoggery. 2015-Present, steroidal TDS. Just a few milestones.

I think MSM lean became a crash and progressive collapse during Clinton's MalAdministration.

Yep. You have been paying attention.  And let's not forget surrendering Vietnam after Tet in '68.

[Absalom]

The political shift gained momentum after the Civil War as industrialism replaced our agrarian
and mercantile economy.
This concentrated economic influence in urban centers; in particular DC, our political core.
Our entry into the Great War then internationalized our politics away from its earlier insular
focus, as we became a world power.
These forces/factors have produced a media that is at the core of the existing power structure;
having absolutely nothing to do w/ the First Amendment.

[Smokin Joe]

The political shift gained momentum after the Civil War as industrialism replaced our agrarian
and mercantile economy.
This concentrated economic influence in urban centers; in particular DC, our political core.
Our entry into the Great War then internationalized our politics away from its earlier insular
focus, as we became a world power.
These forces/factors have produced a media that is at the core of the existing power structure;
having absolutely nothing to do w/ the First Amendment.

The political core of which you speak was in New York and New England, and in the minds of the banking class and media still is.

[Absalom]

The political core of which you speak was in New York and New England, and in the minds of the banking class and media still is.

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Indeed and well said.

[goatprairie]

Although I was too young to vote, I well remember the '64 prez campaign.
Barry Goldwater was vilified in the media and just about everywhere else.
He never had a chance considering the mood of the country and the bias of the even then extremely liberal press. Even MAD Magazine depicted him as a warmonger itching to start WW3.
So the idea that the media just recently turned liberal is absurd. It's been exceptionally liberal for more than half a century.  Even the Chicago Tribune is now just another liberal garbage news machine.

[Right_in_Virginia]

 I posted an excerpt from and link to the original Townhall article that disappeared during the clean up in aisle one @Cyber Liberty . 

Perhaps you can return this to the thread ---

[Cyber Liberty]

I posted an excerpt from and link to the original Townhall article that disappeared during the clean up in aisle one @Cyber Liberty . 

Perhaps you can return this to the thread ---

I have no idea where that was....Was it from this thread?

[Right_in_Virginia]

I have no idea where that was....Was it from this thread?

No, sir.  Wrong thread. 

But thanks.

@Cyber Liberty

[Cyber Liberty]

No, sir.  Wrong thread. 

But thanks.

@Cyber Liberty

Sorry, can't find it.