The saving grace is that their audiences are now minute. I used to watch all the Sunday talk shows back in the seventies and eighties. Other than bits and pieces on the internet, it has been probably at least two decades since I last watched one. They survive on sheer inertia and the delusion of the mainstream media that they still matter as much as they used to.
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
ignored for at least 25 years. big yawn.
They were probably just as bias in the 70s and 80s but we didn’t know it.
I still watch Fox Sunday Morning with Shannon Breem and ABC Sunday Morning with Stephanoupolis and Martha Radditz, (need to know what they’re saying on the Round Table.) I also watch CBS Sunday Morning for their cultural stories but even that is biased. Sharyl Atkinson’s “Full Measure” is the only other bright spot.
Brinkley’s show on ABC was the most even handed. It went off the air in 96 and Brinkley died in 03.
MacNeill Lehrer for a time had a short roundtable in its episodes which brought together four reporters / editors from different regions of the country. You had one panelist from San Diego, one from Dallas, one from the New Jersey suburbs of greater New York, and a wild card. They generally said nothing interesting and it was blatant that they had much more in common with each other than they did with the man in the street in their supposed regions. One exception was when they had on the panel a man named Erwin Knoll, who edited a small opinion magazine issued in Wisconsin. He could find an angle the other clots never mentioned and actually say something funny.
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One of the regulars was a tedious creature named Lee Cullum (“of the Dallas Morning News“). She’s still producing verbiage at age 86. One of her more recent bits of spew was blaming the troubles in Britain on….Brexit. The dame reminds you of Thos. Sowell’s remark that intelligence and articulateness are not the same thing.
They were probably just as bias in the 70s and 80s but we didn’t know it.
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Accuracy in Media and the Media Research Center have documented bias for over 50 years. That there’s always been bias does not mean it was equally severe in each age. It’s difficult to imagine the national media as it was in 1975 consenting to be part of a pantomime like the Biden press conferences.
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I can’t imagine spending Sunday mornings watching TV, much less watching politicians and reporters on TV. It sounds dreadful.
I never watch those talk shows. I don’t think I have missed anything of value.
I cannot recall which one of them was handsomely supported by ad buys from a firm called First Jersey Securities. The owner operator of that firm was subsequently convicted of fraud and the firm dissolved. I saw a television interview with a pair of mopes who had for a time worked as salesmen there. They said they did not know of anyone with any integrity at all who worked there for more than a short time. They said it was typical for investors to get about six cents on the dollar for their investments.