Sabato’s Crystal Ball: Are The Top Journalists Insiders Or Outsiders?
Larry J. Sabato: ARE THE TOP JOURNALISTS INSIDERS OR OUTSIDERS?
Something truly astonishing appeared in a Washington Post column on July 25, 2009 (click here to view). It was written by Frank Mankiewicz, former press secretary to Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) and the man who is perhaps most widely remembered for announcing RFK’s death in June 1968. Mankiewicz was also the political director of Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern’s losing 1972 campaign. The column contained a two-fold revelation about the just-deceased Walter Cronkite, the longtime CBS News anchorman. Here are the disclosures, in Mankiewicz’ own words:
1.”Armed with a poll showing Walter Cronkite to be the most trusted man in America, I proposed that [McGovern] put forward Walter Cronkite for vice president. My idea met with instant, and unanimous, disapproval. He’d never accept, and we’d look bad, colleagues said…
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One Response to “Sabato’s Crystal Ball: Are The Top Journalists Insiders Or Outsiders?”
Rather than call them journalists, it would be more accurate to call them apologists with an agenda.
Few people trust journalists today, the mainstream media is total garbage, dumbed-down, biased, & unprofessional. ''News'' is ''fit'' into a sterotyped mold & inconvenient facts omitted. Cronkite was no better but people were more naive then & didn't have other sources of information. Media coverage of Bush & now Obama has reached new lows for the profession, not even vaguely objective.