CNN reporter: Top Trump aide threatened to throw me out

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41. YEP. Let's not forget that, either.

AND making it clear through word and deed that any coverage of bodies returning from the Iraq War was verboten. Totally taboo. NOT permitted. No coverage of the flag-draped coffins returning to Dover AFB. That was one of the first official things the then-new President Obama did: invite the press to honor and welcome home those coffins of the American troop casualties, and attending that moment himself. During bush/cheney, if you so much as published a photo of it, or anything else like it - funerals, families in mourning, coverage or discussion of, or Heaven forbid SHOWING the TRUE cost of war, you could be fired.

They did not want the American people to see, hear, or be reminded of the true cost of war. That might turn them against it. Gotta say something for these people. They're NOT naive, they DON'T forget, and they LEARN from experience. You better believe they remember how, once Walter Cronkite had seen enough of the Vietnam War coverage to turn against it, the American people turned against it, too. I believe the quote from within the White House at the time was "if we've lost Cronkite..."

But then again, back during that time, we had a network anchorman who was known and even nicknamed "the most trusted man in America." We had Cronkite. On CBS - once widely known and even nicknamed "the Tiffany network" because it was considered so honorable and high-class - even the programming side (where they had sterling properties ranging from "I Love Lucy" and "The Ed Sullivan Show" to "60 Minutes" and "Mary Tyler Moore&quot . And others of his ilk, like NBC's Huntley & Brinkley and Frank Reynolds and others on ABC.

Who would you consider an heir to the mantle of "the most trusted man (or woman) in America" nowadays? The closest I think we get, anymore, is/was Jon Stewart. And he was on Comedy Central, not one of the major establishment networks.