I keep remembering what we were taught in the 60's about the USSR

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

That the news was lies and couldn't be trusted. Sounded horrible to me. The word "propaganda" was a terrible thing.

Then we'd go home and watch Walter Cronchite and be relieved that it just wouldn't ever happen here.

Sigh.

[Odin2005]

1. We've always been at war with Eastasia!!!

[coalition_unwilling]

2. The irony is that it WAS happening here at exactly the same time. Can you

say 'VIETNAM'?

[shraby]

3. Those were the days my friend..we thought they'd never end. But

those days were a two edged sword...on one had the cold war was going on and propaganda and distrust of Russia made the fud possible. On the other hand. reporters were taught to report the news, not make it.
Then a funny thing happened. The news became the news. Outrageously high salaries were given to news personality's..someplace in the mid-late 1970s. That changed the standards the news people lived by. They had to justify those salaries by making news themselves and through slip-shod reporting, hyping untrue statements, pushing propaganda.
Everyone was right, there were no wrong or untrue political remarks. Viewers watched whichever news program reflected their own personal beliefs/philosophies.
Is that all changing? I doubt it. The money is too good for saying the right story and not the true story about what is going on in the country.

[BOG PERSON]

4. why does everybody assume "propaganda" is necessarily false?

it all depends on who's issuing the propaganda.

[thelordofhell]

5. We won the Cold War

But we can't keep the Cold Peace

[HopeHoops]

7. And that's the way it was.