Calling all DUers who were children in the 50's and 60's..your expertise is needed

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31. That's crazy.

I was a child of the 50's and the only thing similar between the late 20th c. cold war with the Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam dominoes and etc, and 2014 politics is MSM hype. MSM hype is, God help us, shallower - but it's the very, most awfully very same.

There is no - with some extraordinary exceptions - unembedded media today in The Western World (tm), whereas back then the notion of embedded media was either not acknowledged or not discussed using that word. It being somewhat shameful for the embedded "most trusted anchor" to admit to such terms of employment. I'd say that it's a positive for the 21st c. that the embedding of our MSM is acknowledged as fact, if only among the mainstream of the progressive left.

There's a lot of talk about "the evil of Putin" on DU, with all kinds of verbal slinging of arrows and discontent. I've been called a "Putin Puppet" and all kinds of alliterative slang merely for weighing in. There's the same kind of talk (from many of the same people) about "the evil of Maduro" on DU (I've been called an "***wipe" for that, and I'm now close to banishment from DU for mentioning that the author of the asterisks was uncommonly interested in asswipe), and it seems to amount to the same thing. A sergeant whipping up the troops with slideshows of atrocities, the more gruesome the better. Nothing much more than that. None of it amounts to political analysis, IMO.