Walter Cronkite
Sep 15, 2021 10:45:02 #
Sep 15, 2021 12:20:08 #
burkphoto wrote:
Man, you got that right. Unfortunately, the bases of both parties contain some of the least well-informed, least-educated, low-information v**ers in the population at large. So we get BS policy decisions no matter who is in charge. The billionaires who donate to campaigns rely on the bases to support their picks. Without them, they wouldn't get to make their puppets dance.
You are spot on and proof of what you say was our previous President.
Sep 15, 2021 12:39:13 #
Glenn Harve wrote:
A typical false "all due respect" to boot. Start your education by some light reading of facts and history. Try "American Marxism" by Mark Levin. Open your mind to the reality and all the insanity makes sense.
I'd rather pee on his feet than read any of Mark Levin's crap. Any well-educated college graduate knows better than to believe such political propaganda.
There are enormous economic forces on both left and right who would love to bend history and distort reality to support their own economic agendas. It's so sad... Normal people are so susceptible to these pied pipers.
Sep 15, 2021 12:49:16 #
TriX wrote:
Nope, checked a couple of your posts in the attic, and now I know everything I need to know - not interested in your brand of politics/philosophy or authors that espouse it.
Open your mind to the light of t***h rather than the darkness of indoctrination.
Sep 15, 2021 13:46:45 #
Glenn Harve wrote:
Open your mind to the light of t***h rather than the darkness of indoctrination.
Or the propaganda of conspiracy, d******eness or stupidity. No thanks.
Sep 15, 2021 15:32:33 #
TriX wrote:
Or the propaganda of conspiracy, d******eness or stupidity. No thanks.
Apparently you fear written words, other views, t***h, and above all, the ability to think for yourself. You appear to limit yourself based not on others (thats your excuse) but rather because of yourself. You refuse to read a book, "basing" that on someone you dont even know! Thats just pure weakness. The division is within yourself, as is the stupidity.
Your own weakness rules your excuses and denials.
Personally i choose to read as much as possible from all sources. Then, as an AMERICAN, I decide what allies with wrong vs right. While we still have that God given right, i will exercise it.
Sep 15, 2021 15:33:04 #
Sep 15, 2021 15:57:37 #
brontodon wrote:
Once we started talking about politics this sort of arguing was inevitable. : (
Yes. Unfortunately its not just "politics". Its a large part of camera forums as well. Canon vs sony vs nikon etc etc. The art of photography is often lost in unmoving opinions about gear, as if gear defines all.
Opinions are now confused against facts. Politics confused against science. The beginning of this post was a reflection of these issues. T***hs as "perceived" vs the realities of t***h.
Sep 15, 2021 16:16:34 #
Since the attic dwellers have arrived, I’m gone (and so is the thread) - not interested in providing a forum for this drivel.
Sep 15, 2021 16:26:12 #
thom w
Loc: San Jose, CA
neillaubenthal wrote:
I remember those days as well. Two stories I remem... (show quote)
And a bunch of crazies turned on him because he didn't say what they wanted him to say about Viet Nam.
By the way, anyone remember Murrow?
Sep 15, 2021 16:28:33 #
Yes he was a tad on the left. I was young and enjoyed some of the issues he covered. I didn't really understand at that age. Paul Harvey was the story teller. We had radio than TV.
Sep 15, 2021 16:37:55 #
It’s not the journalists fault it’s the news outlets that are controlling the narrative. That’s why you have so many alternative news sites.
Sep 15, 2021 16:49:00 #
thom w
Loc: San Jose, CA
sheebe wrote:
Yes he was a tad on the left. I was young and enjoyed some of the issues he covered. I didn't really understand at that age. Paul Harvey was the story teller. We had radio than TV.
Harvey was fiction!
Sep 15, 2021 16:52:10 #
Advertisers/sponsors have much more influence over what and how news is reported nowadays. The influence of money, you could say. There are plenty of fine journalists out there, but in the major media outlets their hands are essentially tied.
Sep 15, 2021 17:44:44 #
burkphoto wrote:
Yep. But when it came to the Viet Nam war, he had enough. That was Johnson’s undoing.
I loved Cronkite.
I loved Cronkite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCdXVWsTpSM
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