Do We Have Any Idea About What’s Going On?

When I was growing up (this was the 1960’s) I assumed that if you read The New York Times every morning and watched Walter Cronkite at night, you knew what was going on. My belief in the sanctity and honesty of the news was first called into question when it turned out that the attack on the Destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 didn’t actually happen. But this misreporting wasn’t the fault of the news media because nobody in those days imagined that a President could get up in front of the American people and just lie.