Spook said:

“The MSM didn’t have their Soviet agitators and money to whip up the anti-war crowd.”

The MSM isn’t as powerful as it once was. Is it only because the Soviet Agit-Prop money has gone away? Reagan was a master at running circles around the jackals and hyenas of the MSM. Did the MSM lose street cred because of Reagan? It used to be that one’s main news sources were CBS and the New York Times. However I get almost all of my news from the Internet. If I see something political attributed to the New York Times, I normally skip over it because I assume it’s liberal propaganda. After I bought my house, I took down the television antenna and disconnected the cable (I’m a father and network television is bad for kids). It’s been years since I last watched CBS news.