Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Why News Was So Neutral in the '50s u0026 '60s" video.

  1. The 1st Amendment isn't to prevent bias. The federal government has no business deciding what's socially responsible. In the '60s and '70s, the APPEARANCE of objectivity was maintained in the actual reporting. The bias was in the selection of which stories to report. Things slowly got more blatantly biased through the '80s and '90s, and now there's no subtlety at all. They beat you over the head with their editorializing, even in the straight reporting. I kind of LIKE that they've become more blatant, because now it's all out in the open, and it's harder to suppress news stories, because some outlet on "the other side" will make a big story out of things the established order doesn't want in the public square, and so we SEE the censorship that before Obama, only conservatives ever complained about. Of course, most conservatives, if they had THEIR way, would return to "the good old days," which were not actually very good. The only thing the conservatives don't seem to like is the fact that the bias is almost 100% against THEM. As a limited-government constitutionalist, I don't want the government weighing in for EITHER side. Conservatives have folded on big social spending, and liberals have folded on war. Both agree to spend big on both, and that's extremely bad for prosperity, liberty, and an ethical citizenry.
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  2. The bias has always been baked into the broadcast. It's just that most people agreed with the propaganda.
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