Originally Posted by Robbie

I agree.

But the worse thing is...even though the network news organizations were pretty liberal biased when I was a kid in the 1960's and 1970's...at least they still did REAL journalism. They investigated stuff. And they did the job of the free press: they QUESTIONED the govt.

When I was a kid watching coverage of the Vietnam War, you would see Dan Rather at CBS and even Geraldo Rivera for ABC reporting from places they were NOT supposed to be. With bullets flying. And they would openly show our troops doing "good" AND when they did "bad". And they questioned the validity of the war every step of the way.

Fast forward to the last couple of decades: Not only do they NOT question the govt., but they don't investigate anything. They are handed press releases by the feds and read them on the news like it's all fact.

And the wars? The freakin' journalists were "Embedded" with the troops. Thus insuring that we would only see the "good" and there was never any questioning during the wars.

Remember when we went into Iraq? And the "journalists" were riding "triumphantly" into Baghdad practically bragging about it instead of reporting.

It's a disgrace.