Where Did Walter Cronkite Go, and Why Did He Leave?

Older Americans pine for the good old days of news reporting, and indeed, Walter Cronkite exemplified those times.

So what’s changed?  Corporate America figured out that it could turn (fairly) objective news into entertainment, and keep Americans glued to it for long stretches of time, absorbing enormous amounts of paid advertising.  In other words, news was converted from a public service into a multi-trillion dollar industry.

Making that happen required creating an us-versus-them environment.  If you’re a conservative, the people who watch CNN want to give away taxpayer money to lazy slobs and illegal aliens. If you’re a progressive, Fox News viewers are hateful, ignorant, selfish pigs.

And so it goes.

Just understand that this didn’t just happen; it was engineered to make huge sums of money.