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English: The views of a -- the majority of this fraternity do not -- and I repeat, not -- represent the views of America. And that is why such a great gulf existed between how the nation received the President's address and how the networks reviewed it.

Not only did the country receive the President's address warmer -- more warmly than the networks, but so also did the Congress of the United States. Yesterday, the President was notified that 300 individual Congressmen and 50 Senators of both parties had endorsed his efforts for peace. As with other American institutions, perhaps it is time that the networks were made more responsive to the views of the nation and more responsible

- From US VP Spiro Agnew's Nov. 1969 speech about news networks and the news media, and their alleged biases
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Source https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/spiroagnewtvnewscoverage.htm
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VP of the USA Spiro Agnew

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