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To: MrLucky who wrote (68921)	9/10/2004 4:32:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793570

>>Walter Cronkite was the most trusted man in America Ah, for the good old days when we were all so naive. <g> There's a very good book waiting to be written on just what news was and wasn't reported in the 'golden age', and how MSM has changed in the last 20 years. My recolection is that CBS news under Cronkite was a careful and centrist gatekeeper that was trusted because its views were reasonable and its facts were borne out. If there was falsity, it was created by a false 'completeness' impression, that CBS news really did cover everything there was to cover. But this was more an artifact of the 'communal hearth' created by 3 TV networks, itself an artifact that lasted for about 30 years, from circa 1950 into the 1980s. I would compare CBS news then to TIME magazine now. TIME goes to quite a bit of trouble to keep itself in the center of the political spectrum. Just my impressions.