I have often heard the story of a Twentieth Century Icon passing on to the afterlife, his name was Walter Cronkite. That anchor was before my generation but one can’t help but notice many of these Twentieth Century Icons have no replacement. No one is left behind who can fill their shoes in their absence. Whatever category of the news there is, no one is left to carry their water in the Twenty-First Century. Walter Cronkite is just another example of this, his legacy could be narrowed down to one word, “objectivity.” The way that newsman would deliver the news, left no traces of personal bias.

America never had to be enraged watching the evening news by seeing the personal bias of the anchor dripping all over our screen. Objective news reporting has become a thing of the past. Now we just pick our favorite and go with that. We have to bounce back and forth to both political sides, so we can find the truth, which always resides in the middle. The modern Nightly News anchors on the major networks never deliver the truth, they lie by omission.

We have no more middlemen that bring us the truth, my generation screwed it up. Walter along with Tim Russet was the last of the Mohicans and for people like me. They are both sorely missed; I grew up watching Tim.  It is quite a sad state of affairs when one realizes the propaganda talking heads we are left with on TV. It is gravitas itself that I will miss with men like Walter and Tim. The men of stature and weight have moved on and have left the world. The next generation stepped in and wrecked everything from late-night comedy shows to network and cable news.

Walter like no other newsman did earn America’s trust and there is not a single news anchor left today who has earned anything but our disdain. The network anchors today are cartoons in a cartoon graveyard. If we had a single news network anchor that we could trust, it wouldn’t matter how many choices we had, we would go to that person for our news. We would follow that trusted source and stand with that newscaster, but none of them holds our loyalty. The dying network newscast has stopped being appointment TV not because of technology, aging Boomers, and choice. It is dying because of the anchors, plain and simple. The blame lies with them, even if they want to hide behind these network executives and excuses.

Network news anchors and their cable news counterparts today are a shadow of their forebears. They have earned America’s disdain. Fake News as a label is a phrase that fits like a glove with these biased people. Whether they like it or not, nobody trusts these corporate media whores. I could name names, but we all know who I am talking about. There is no escape from the Orwellian-style newscast that they vomit out every day. If they were the best at what they did, America would gravitate towards excellence, that is who “we” are. Generation X destroyed the viability of the press, we simply do not believe this generation of newscasters, that is who “they” are.

C. Rich

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C. Rich

C. Rich is the voice behind America Speaks Ink, home to the America First Movement. As an author, poet, freelance ghostwriter, and blogger, C. Rich brings a “baked-in” perspective shaped by growing up on the streets and beaches of South Florida in the 1970s-1980s and brings a quintessential Generation-X point of view.

Rich’s writing journey began in 2008 with coverage of the Casey Anthony trial and has since evolved into a wide-ranging exploration of politics, culture, and the issues that define our times. Follow C. Rich’s writing odyssey here at America Speaks Ink and on Amazon with a four-book series on Donald Trump called “Trump Era: The MAGA Files” and many other books and subjects C. Rich is known to cover.

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