The stench and foul air of what media has become

[J_William_Ryan]

5. "Is it Murrow and Cronkite we want or something else or do we even know?"

Both of whom were perceived to be ‘liberal’ – that’s part of the problem, the ‘liberal’ media lie.

That the press reported facts and the truth that exposed the faults and failures of conservative dogma and the false narrative that the media were ‘anti-American’ and ‘unfair’ to Republican politicians – as illustrated by the Pentagon Papers and Watergate – conservatives began their campaign of disinformation and lies, ultimately resulting in the rise of rightwing media.

As a consequence, ‘mainstream’ media became obsessed with being accused of being ‘liberal’ and sought to countervail the assault from the right by giving equal time to conservative disinformation and lies and pandering to reprehensible, dishonest Republican politicians – Trump being the most infamous example.