Manipulation as 'news' ~ By Joseph Farah

Joseph Farah tells us about how Walter Cronkite had manipulated the news about Viet Nam, and how it may have lead to the deaths of millions in SE Asia after the United States had pulled out of Viet Nam.

Walter Cronkite was a stooge from the get-go. We now know who recommended him as the anchor for CBS News – the editor of the far-left socialist magazine The Nation. We also know what he morphed into once CBS let him go – a whacked-out globalist who sought to persuade Americans to give up their national sovereignty.

Do you think much has changed since then?

By Joseph Farah

Posted: May 20, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

There are lots of people discovering today that "news" is often manipulation.

This is especially true when only a few big corporations control most of the information that passes as "news."

But this is hardly a new phenomenon.

It has always been the case.

I'm finishing up an excellent new biography of American journalism icon Joseph Pulitzer. The man could scarcely decide what he was – politician or newspaperman. But he became the most important publisher in America during his lifetime. And his name still graces journalism's highest award.

And, last week, we learned more about the person formerly known as "the most trusted man in America" – Walter Cronkite.

I devoted nearly an entire chapter to the myth of Walter Cronkite in my book "Stop the Presses!" But the information about his political activism and, later in life, his anti-American political extremism, could fill volumes.

Back in the 1960s, it seems, Cronkite, then the CBS News anchor, actually collaborated with anti-Vietnam War activists, even offering advice on how to raise their public profile and pledging his network's help.

Anyone who lived through the era understands how Cronkite turned the tide of national opinion against the war – leaving untold millions to die in the wake of a precipitous U.S. withdrawal and a congressional cutoff of aid to anti-communist forces.

But what we didn't know was just how far Cronkite went behind the scenes to bolster the anti-war movement and manipulate the "news."

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Meet the Real Walter Cronkite

'Most trusted' newsman pushed radical agenda By Joseph Farah Posted: July 18, 2009 11:40 pm Eastern © 2009 WorldNetDaily WASHINGTON – Walter Cronkite is dead at 92 – but most Americans, many of whom considered him "the most trusted man" in the country during his reign as CBS News anchor – still don't know what motivated him and how he secured such an influential and lofty position. He was like a grandfatherly institution in the early days of TV. People believed him. Uncle Walter wouldn't lie, America believed. Thus, when he gave his opinions, they had impact. One example was his report on the Tet offensive in Vietnam, which is credited with swinging the tide of opinion against the war. Even in his death, however, nobody has addressed how and why an otherwise obscure figure at the time was elevated to become the most prominent anchorman on television. The story was told publicly in the July 10, 2000, edition of the Nation, a Marxist-oriented journal, in a report on death of Blair Clark, who served as editor of the Nation from 1976 through 1978: "Whether it was calling on Philip Roth to recommend a Nation literary editor or persuading CBS News president Richard Salant to make Walter Cronkite anchor of CBS Evening News, Blair had a gift for the recognition and recruitment of excellence." Clark was not only the editor of the Nation, he was also heir to the Clark thread fortune, a Harvard classmate and friend of John F. Kennedy, a buddy of Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee and the manager of Eugene McCarthy's 1968 campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. He veered back and forth between politics and journalism seamlessly as an associate publisher of the New York Post, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vice president and general manager of CBS News and yet remained a fixture in Democratic Party politics throughout his career. Clark wasn't the kind of man who would promote Walter Cronkite for the most visible job in journalism because of his press accomplishments alone – and his press accomplishments were noticeably meager. [CONTINUE READING]

FROM MY VIEW When I say, CONTINUE READINGI mean it. Read the rest of Joseph Farah's column. I know, it sounds so cold and cruel of me (and Farah) to be bringing up something about somebody so recently reaching room temperature, but is vitally important that you hear this now, while you still remember who he was, from your perspective. Well, while the MSM is all gushing and so full of the greet quantities of warm fuzzies for the man, the one who people trusted, and now revere and memorialize, I'm thinking that maybe the coverage needs to be fair and balanced. There are things that Walter Cronkite told the public in his later years that you need to be aware of. What is so important about that, where I would talk about somebody that is no longer with us? It may be that I have to wonder if the man's worldviews may have influenced what he provided us with as a respected and trusted news anchor. Could it be that he would only tell us what he thought we needed to know, from his own One World Government perspective? (By the way, I doubt Tony Snow or Paul Harvey, just after they passed on, always had the most reverant coverage by those on the other side of the politcal spectrum...)

Couric deserves Cronkite award ~ By Joseph Farah

Walter Cronkite, who was once the most powerful and influential "newsman" in America, came out of the socialist, anti-American closet a long time ago. So, it is entirely logical that Katie Couric should get the Cronkite award for "Special Impact on the 2008 Campaign". Who else could better fill the working-class hero shoes of Walter Cronkite? read more | digg story