Iphoneconservative - Posts:
"Most of us by now understand that the Mainstream Media are not in the business of the reporting of facts but rather in the shaping of public opinion.
Across America, 24 hours a day, the media enters our homes and lives not to inform us...... but rather to tell us how we should think.
Whether the issue is Global Warming, marriage equality or civil unrest in American cities...........coverage is less determined by the facts than by what networks and reporters believe the story should be.
Journalism has become a profession peopled by social activists masquerading as impartial reporters of facts.
This however is not a new phenomena............
In fact a study of papers and periodicals of the 18th and 19th century show wildly inflammatory and misleading opinion being presented as news.
The newspaper business of that day was a wild free for all, where anyone with the resources, could set up a newspaper or periodical and publish virtually anything that they liked.
Not much different from the internet of today.
However.....in the early part of the 20th century journalism took on the mantle of a profession. Reporters and the media were now accorded an increasing respect. 
Schools of journalism were set up, guidelines and codes of conduct outlined and the media took up its self-appointed role as the "fourth estate, the gate-keeper of western democracy assuring Americans that truth was their highest ideal.
Walter Cronkite changed all that.
Touted as the "most trusted man in America" Cronkite's role as CBS's news anchorman took him into American living rooms nightly, to tell the families gathered there, the events of the day, signing off with the assurance "And that's the way it is".
The public trust in Walter Cronkite cannot be underestimated.
Which is why his betrayal of that trust and its ongoing consequences is so particularly egregious.
...The legacy of Walter Cronkite continues to this day. 

The media once the collators and promulgators of facts have become in the space of one human lifetime............The gatekeepers of inconvenient truths.
Only allowing outside that which serves their beliefs and desires.
Thus is our Republic weakened and the public trust made poorer by the day."

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