Honestly, I thought he retired many years ago. Whatever....always generally liked the guy, and recall him being part of an era when I perceived the media as being at least halfway reliable, fair, etc. I miss those days.
Tom Brokaw Announces Retirement
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We are a LONG ways from the days of neutral news services and trusted news anchors. It’s shameful what it’s become on both sides.
This!! There’s no news anymore just opinion.
I remember him reporting on the 1st gulf war in 1990... I was an intern at jackson memorial hospital in Miami
I just have a very different perspective. I see the difference between ABC’s World News Tonight—a half hour show where the news is reported versus an hour long political talk commentary on the likes of CNN and Fox News.
I will never forget the late Peter Jennings going off on George W for staying on Airforce One on September 11th. A lot changed for me that day in the way I viewed News Anchors.
did he really go off? I can’t see Brokaw, Jennings, or today’s David Muir and Lester Holt going off on a president during the news telecast.Slight criticism? Maybe . Do you have a link- I’m very curious.
An example of this is even during the heist of the previous administration I never heard them “going off” even during/ after the insurrection at the Capitol. CNN’s Chris Cuomo (on Trump), Fox News Hannity (on Obama, for example)? Yes absolutely. Those guys don’t host nightly news programs- they are more political commentary hosts that do “go off” all the time.
There is a difference in the programs. Local news also just reports the news. Again, different than FN or CNN.
Gwinnet, It's not the hard news, it's the underlying NARRATIVE (devotion to a party line) that corrupts even the regular news (i.e., Trump is bad/Biden is bad/etc.). You cite ABC/NBC news---when was the last time they covered a Trump triumph or achievement? (i.e., the COVID Warp Speed Vaccine formulation, the Middle East peace initiatives, the economy, etc.)---if you really believe that Muir and Holt are not part of the slant, then Hee Haw was not a country entertainment show. Living in the Washington DC area, I can tell you the anti-everything Republican narrative has even corrupted the local news channels.
Actually Muir was very fair on Trump for the economy. Muir actually kept viewers up to date on the Warp Speed progress. It's not his job to flat out say "Trump is great" or "Trump needs to improve". Those words or anything close never came out when I watched.
It sounds like what people want today is not news. Rather they prefer pure biased commentary that supports their preconceived notions. I've watch NBC Nightly News and ABC's World News Tonight for 25 years. They haven't changed. People and how they want news reported has (i.e: you're wrong if you don't agree with me). People have taken to the constant feed from Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity who say the MSM is biased. It's the reason Q has become so believed today, people have latched on to their beliefs. I'd bet there are more people that believed JFK Jr was coming back, 5G is used to spread COVID, Trump would arrest all the liberal politicians and movie stars for acts of pedophilia and send them to Gitmo (all Q theories that people hitched too) than actually watch real news. The internet, social media has changed the way we live for the bad. Crazy times for our country and the world.
Walter Cronkite was a very liberal and left leaning guy, but you couldn’t tell by his newscast. The first time it really sunk in to me that some news readers had a slant was when u employment hit a record low early in Reagan’s second term and Connie Chung opened her Saturday newscast with a story on how low unemployment was hurting people. Or in 1992 when ABC News opened with a story of G H W Bush and the election and showed a clip of a 3-year old kid crying and running away when the President walked up to the family. Some of its shuttle, but bias in the media has been around for decades.
