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posted by Skunkfeathers at 00:30
Friday, August 2, 2024
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In da woids of Popeye, "I yam what I yam". Personally, I hate yams, but I digress (often)...I take life as it comes, put a little milk on it, and give it to my pet rock, 'cuz I hate that cereal. Ack...I write. About email scams, my own misadventures, and about my view of life in general. My pet rock, Seymour, yawns continuously...
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Cronkite was a lying scumbag and the Democrats were utterly successful in the campaign to make him the most trusted Democrat in the US because they had always controlled the media. Of course, being the most trusted Democrat is easy to do. But, it was also easy to destroy someone that was telling the truth, too. Remember Joseph McCarthy? People still use "McCarthyism" when they want to make fun of someone as a conspiracy theorist.
I remember vividly Cronkite lying on television because my grandfather, who had plenty of engineer friends in Vietnam, pointed out the lies about Tet and saying that Good Ol' Walter was a Communist. Of course, we did find that out later, but still the "Most Trusted" crap about him is actually believed by some folks.
"Hanoi’s decision to launch the Tet offensive was born of desperation. It was an effort to seize the northern provinces of South Vietnam with conventional troops while triggering an urban uprising by the Vietcong that would distract the Americans — and, some still hoped, revive the fading hopes of the Communists. The offensive itself began on January 30, with attacks on American targets in Saigon and other Vietnamese cities, and ended a little more than a month later when Marines crushed the last pockets of resistance in the northern city of Hue.
It not only destroyed the Vietcong as an effective political and military force, it also, together with the siege of Khe Sanh, crippled the NVA, which lost 20 percent of its forces in the South and suffered 33,000 men killed in action, all for no gain. By the end of 1969, over 70 percent of South Vietnam’s population was rated by the U.S. military as under government control, compared with 42 percent at the beginning of 1968.
The American public knew none of this, however. Almost from the moment the first shots were being fired, skeptics of the war effort in the mainstream media, including CBS News icon Walter Cronkite, would use Tet to prove that the war wasn’t being won as the Johnson administration was claiming. They went further, representing the failed attacks on the U.S. embassy in Saigon and other sites as symbols of Communist success.
As the Washington Post’s own Saigon bureau chief Peter Braestrup documented in his book The Big Story, reporters caught in the fighting systematically used it to turn the reality of American victory into an image of American and South Vietnamese defeat (reporting for example that Vietcong had overrun five floors of the U.S. embassy when in fact the VC had never even gotten inside the building). Newsweek’s coverage of the siege of Khe Sanh showed 18 photos (out of a total of 29) of dead or wounded Marines or Marines huddling under cover, never mentioning that the Marines were steadily pushing back the NVA and inflicting heavy casualties.
That campaign of misrepresentation culminated in Walter Cronkite’s half-hour TV special on February 27, when he told his viewers with an appropriately glum face that Tet had proved that America was now “mired in a stalemate” — even as American forces were breaking the siege around Khe Sanh and clearing out the last resistance in Hue."
Sorry, I am so sick to death of people thinking that the media just started lying last week. They have been lying ALL along.
I grew up with the illusion of a more balanced media. My first education otherwise came in the early '90s. Now there's so few I have much faith in, I hardly listen to news anymore.
Folks STILL think Cronkite was a good guy, Skunks. He was pond scum.
That didn't become more evident until after he retired from nightly broadcasting and started his other projects. Then his rather liberal veil was clearly revealed. Today no media is trustworthy.
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