In 50 years, I can see a marked difference. Back then, the MSM was left slanted, but they didn't outright lie every night.
I remember when Walter Cronkite lost the War in Vietnam: That was when the Left came out of their media closet, and they haven't looked back.
Cronkite ignored the fact that in all the provincial capitals attacked during a cease fire (the Tet holiday truce), only Hue remained to be taken back, and that delay was due to rules of engagement that initially forbid the use of artillery or air strikes. While the North attacked every capital of every province in a coordinated attack, those forces were defeated. Cronkite's announcement gave the Communists the propaganda victory, a victory they could not achieve militarily, at a time when their forces had been severely depleted on the battlefield. For the Communists in North Vietnam, Cronkite snatched victory from the jaws of what was, in reality, a serious defeat.
The changes made in policy by that encouragement of antiwar factions in the US and other elements of The New Left (heavily populated with Marxists) ensured that when South Vietnam needed us most, the (Democrat controlled) Congress pulled funding and materiel support, enabling the NVA to practically parade the length of the South with armored columns that could have been destroyed from the air.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn2RjahTi3MNow, he is being lauded as a hero journalist...
