Is the legendary CBS eye being blinded?
From Edward R. Murrow’s powerful reporting about Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist witch hunts within the Fifties, by Walter Cronkite’s potent critiques of the battle in Vietnam, to quite a few hard-hitting segments on the information anthology “60 Minutes” — together with revelations of the many years of lethal lies offered by the tobacco business — CBS Information has set a excessive normal for investigative reporting on tv.
However a story detailing the unlawful and cruel Trump administration policy of shipping migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador has been placed on maintain, even after it had been totally vetted by the editors and workers at “60 Minutes.”
The person who held the story back is Bari Weiss, a conservative journalist with no TV expertise who was just lately put in as editor-in-chief with marching orders so as to add stability to the community’s reporting. CBS journalists and plenty of others suspect that “stability” truly means “tilt” — a tilt towards extra constructive protection of President Donald Trump and his controversial insurance policies.
One purpose for the lean could possibly be that David Ellison, the highest man at Paramount Skydance, the mum or dad firm of CBS, is making a multibillion-dollar hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. President Trump has indicated he can be inserting himself within the choice to approve or disapprove the deal. The query individuals are asking is whether or not Ellison is attempting to curry favor with Trump, basically buying and selling the integrity of CBS Information for an enormous payoff.
CNN is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery, so there are fears that one more main information operation could possibly be neutered by company greed and strain from the Trump administration.
A central mark of autocratic regimes is a information media stored below the thumb of the federal government. America is much from that, however the nice fear is that we could also be drifting in that path.
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