Back in the day, the iconic Walter Cronkite closed his nightly CBS newscast with the reassuring words, “And that’s the way it is.” And for a generation at least, Americans believed him.
Well, they don’t any more. Survey after survey has shown that few professions are held in lower regard by the public than journalism. Survey after survey has also revealed that many elite journalists hold to a narrow, secular worldview that sees religious belief as irrelevant to the “real” issues of the day””if not downright dangerous.
“Now the problem with this journalistic orthodoxy,” says Robert Case of the World Journalism Institute, “is that it is disingenuous. ”¦ The post-modern journalist subscribes to no external standard for her judgments. ”¦ With the post-modern loss of the quest for objective truth, journalistic judgment is subject to personal whim, and manipulation by the media elite who have their own perspective on truth.”
Funny he should mention Cronkite, who actually started the downfall. After we had won the Vietnam War Cronkite went on CBS and told us we had lost; and we believed him. Gen. Giap said openly he was preparing to commit suicide after we beat them in the Tet “offensive” but Uncle Walter saved him. The NVA was unable to mount another offensive until 1974, and only then because we had left. Some defeat!