{"id":14384,"date":"2026-06-09T10:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14384"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:59:05","slug":"long-long-ago-in-an-america-far-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14384","title":{"rendered":"Long, Long Ago, In An America Far, Far Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m old enough to remember when Walter Cronkite could tell Americans that the Vietnam war had become a stalemate and president Johnson said If I’ve lost Cronkite I’ve lost middle America<\/em>. I remember a press that followed Watergate right to Nixon’s doorstep. The commercial news media back then was in no way a liberal bastion. If anything it was moderately conservative, and spoke mostly to the middle class. But it would speak truth to power fearlessly when push came to shove. I wonder now in retrospect if all that courage came from having a supreme court that was always on the side of freedom of the press.<\/p>\n

In any case, all you young’uns feeling a constant sense of outrage these days, I can relate…in a way. Except I was there when Johnson lost Cronkite, and The Washington Post and The New York Times ran stories about The Pentagon Papers.<\/p>\n

“It’s true. All of it. The Force, the Jedi. All of it. It’s all true.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s true. All of it. Walter Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley, Dan Rather, Eric Sevareid. All of it. It’s all true.<\/p>\n

I was there.<\/p>\n

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