Even before that there was Walter Cronkite, then Peter Jennings.

That was back in an era where everyone watched the same "influencers". The good part of that was that for the most part, these influencers were rigorously fact checked so the people who watched them agreed on the same set of facts, and those facts were more or less true.

On the other hand, there were times when these "influencers" were biased or even hid the truth. The bias was often something they even had trouble noticing. Like, they all believed communism was a big threat, or that police were trustworthy. As for hiding the truth, sometimes when a politician got in trouble the news would drop the story because of their deference to power. They'd also sometimes try to repeat whatever the government said as truth without checking it, or not investigate bad things the government was doing overseas because they saw that as being patriotic.

Overall, I think it was better when everybody agreed on most things, even if sometimes the news / "influencers" were biased. At least it meant that the government was more or less functional. At least it meant that people were relatively civil with each-other.

Conservatives essentially believe that liberals are all the PC Principal from South Park.

Where the fuck is carburetor?

Right wing ideals have never been consistent. It's all bluster to push an immediate narrative with no regard to how contradictive it is to their other ideals

War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength

Well, sheeple are the ancient eneny, so you must wake them from the dream that is the world without waking yourself or those you love.

I dont get how you dont understand this.

Woke = Enlightened

Not used widely enough with that intent yet, though.

It might even end up being in the dictionary as "Something that you don't like", instead :P

Happier times, when it was just the past tense for "wake".