The media war against U.S. foreign policy By Sol Sanders

It has been a long time – eons given the fickleness of American fads – since The New York Times dictated the American news agenda. Before the digital revolution, it was the seven or eight stories on the front page of The New York Times [not The Times, whose hoary reputation the TNYT for decades has tried to surreptitiously appropriate] which dictated the menu of the three TV networks. Vietnam was the apotheosis of how that monopoly tortured a bumbling Washington strategy and tactics into a monstrous figment of conspiracy and helped bring on a U.S. defeat that still wounds the American psyche and dominates some strategic thinking.

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