And then news-like TV got off the ground in the 80s and grew in the 90s. The physical newspapers died in the early 00s. Newspapers moved online and just wanted click bait. So spicy columns and the flashiest headlines got the grease. The loudest, not most intelligent, commentators dominated.old salt wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:42 pmThat's what made that exception so impactful.a fan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:36 pmDisagree completely.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:20 pm Back up the bus there a Fan. I grew up in the 60s and 70s watching the evening news while my dad napped while reading the evening paper sports section. We had Walter Cronkite a Fan. When you watched Cronkite read the news he NEVER editorialized what he was reading to America.
To wit, the most famous of his reports.....is he "just reporting" here? I sure as heck don't think so.....this is----full on----Cronkite's opinion of the war.
Literally, the exception that proved the rule.
News reporting and facts then became muddled with blogs and columns, and opinions and commentary, and analysis. Often times without clarity or understanding by the general public of what they were reading. People liked going to NYT, WaPo Baltimore Sun, CNN Fox, etc. and finding columns and analysis that espoused what they believed. Echo chambers grew. And here we are today at Fanlax with people shouting at others because they don't like to have their echo-chamber dampened.