Just finished reading an article, citing the untruthfulness of American journalism and those globally, like Al Jazera, who exist to vilify Israel and America.
And when their lies are revealed as lies? No one seems to notice. And worse? No one seems to care.
The author of the article lamented the days of truthful journalism, and harkened back to the days of Walter Cronkite.
Born in the 1950's? I have more than rhetorical and anecdotal memories of Cronkite.
Having lived through his era and that of David Brinkley? I remember all too well, how they both covered the war in Vietnam
Cronkite more so than Brinkley.
Both were the original television architects of news reporting for the boob box media of the time. With Cronkite leading the parade.
And in my opinion, and in the opinion of many others my age and older? We remember how Cronkite wrapped himself in his nightly coverage of the daily death toll of Americans in Vietnam.
Cronkite shaped America's opinion of the war, by reading nightly body counts. Then showing video clips of the body bags and the medi-vac helicopters carrying the American dead and wounded.
Cronkite was also the lead in cementing the idea that America had lost the bombing campaign of Hanoi and the Tet offensive. When in fact the exact opposite was true.
General Giap admitted after the war, that America's reluctance to continue bombing Hanoi and the north, combined with the aid of American opinion being formulated by American media? Had led to Vietnam's victory and America's defeat.
Read
General Vo Nguyen Giap was the commander in chief of the communist armed forces during two of his country's most difficult conflicts—the first against Vietnam's colonial masters, the French, and the second against the most powerful nation on earth, the United States. After long and bloody conflicts, he defeated both Western powers and their Vietnamese allies, forever changing modern warfare. In Giap, military historian James A. Warren dives deep into the conflict to bring to life a revolutionary general and reveal the groundbreaking strategies that defeated world powers against incredible odds. Synthesizing ideas and tactics from an extraordinary range of sources, Giap was one of the first to realize that war is more than a series of battles between two armies and that victory can be won through the strength of a society's social fabric. As America's wars in the Middle East rage on, this is an important and timely look at a man who was a master at defeating his enemies even as they thought they were winning.
And Giap's primary means of defeating America? Was the American media. Led by Walter Cronkite.
Edward R. Murrow? Was the last genuine American journalist.
And then as now, the number one effort of American media, is and has been to demonize and defeat this nation.
A Pox on them all. :thinking:
https://www.scribd.com/book/182535161/Giap-The-General-Who-Defeated-America-in-Vietnam
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