We need more courageous journalists

We need more courageous journalists: I’ve been following politics since the era of JFK, LBJ, and Dick Nixon.  It was an era of social unrest and political turmoil that fractured our country with anti–Vietnam War protests, civil rights demonstrations, and violent attacks on police officers from Black Panthers and Black Liberation Army militants.  Riots broke out every time a police incident involved the death of a black person, and cops were being shot in the back while walking their assigned posts.  The three major news networks, CBS, NBC, and ABC, were doing their usual job of reporting the news, albeit with a liberal bias.  Cable networks were in the embryonic stages, hence weren’t part of the national reportage.