Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
40's? Really? Weren't three years of that decade soaked in wartime propaganda?
Well, 3/10=30%. that means the vast majority were at least somewhat journalistic (which is not the same thing as totally accurate...).
50's? Really? Weren't three or four years of them soaked in McCarthy's media whoring?
Nah, less than one and a half -- that's only 10-15%, thus >85% was reasonably sensible most of the time...

In the 60s things started downhill, fairly slowly, continued to decline slightly in the 70s and 80, took an abrupt downturn in the 90s as the entertainment industry bought all the TV news guys -- who in turned adversely influenced the print media.

Maybe, hopefully, it's cyclical; and they'll have an epiphany.