Once upon the time it was called “the Tiffany Network” because of its absolutely sterling reputation.

Those days are gone.

sure this is out of Putin's playbook or could it be Orban. Just one of many ways to keep Americans stupid.

Like so many households in America during the late 1960’s and 1970’s, the CBS Evening News was our choice for national news and events.

RIP “Uncle Walter”, you were a real newsman in every sense of the word.

They were the golden age of American network newscasters.

He kept broadcasting from London during the Blitz in WWII.

I think he mentored Cronkite too.

According to Wikipedia:

That was a bit before my time, but I still could have done some research.

called ‘The Powers That Be’ which covers the early history of CBS and other media outlets. It’s an interesting read.

dictating what can be broadcast. That's really what this thread is about.

and they were.

Where we put U before the BS!

But TBS is already taken.

“During the first weeks of 1933, the Nazi regime deployed the radio, press, and newsreels to stoke fears of a pending “Communist uprising,” then channeled popular anxieties into political measures that eradicated civil liberties and democracy. SA (Storm Troopers) and members of the Nazi elite paramilitary formation, the SS, took to the streets to brutalize or arrest political opponents and incarcerate them in hastily established detention centers and concentration camps. Nazi thugs broke into opposing political party offices, destroying printing presses and newspapers.
Sometimes using holding companies to disguise new ownership, executives of the Nazi Party-owned publishing house, Franz Eher, established a huge empire that drove out competition and purchased newspapers at below-market prices. Some independent newspapers, particularly conservative newspapers and non-political illustrated weeklies, accommodated to the regime through self-censorship or initiative in dealing with approved topics.”


https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-in-the-third-reich

would be a good name

Can't
Be
Serious.

Not that Chump cares much for "truth" in any case....