News as Political Agenda: Whatever Happened to Cronkite?
Our news programs have become promoters of a political agenda, no longer a broadcast of both sides of a position. But isn’t that what Walter Cronkite did–present both sides? Instead we watch Fox News or MSNBC, Bill O’Reilly or Rachel Maddow, hardly ever both. When did our news become so one-sided? When did we start choosing which...