Re: More of Rudy's "Gold Standard" Journalism- Even Democrats Are Calling CBS on Their Bullshit.

Klaus  Schadenfreude <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]: 

> In 2004, CBS News and “60 Minutes” helped hand President George W.
> Bush a second term. A story about Bush’s service in the National Guard
> blew up in their faces when it came out that Dan Rather had relied on
> amateurishly forged documents.
> 
> Now, “60 Minutes” has done it again, this time with an attack on
> Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that was so ­flagrantly misleading, even
> Florida Democrats are calling it out as a lie. Seventeen years ago,
> the network at least had enough shame left to push Rather out over the
> controversy. This time, CBS is doubling down.
> 
> The network news division that once took down Joe McCarthy now treats
> McCarthy’s methods as a how-to manual.
> 
> The “60 Minutes” story claimed that DeSantis, a Republican elected in
> 2018, gave a payoff to the Publix supermarket chain by designating it
> briefly as an exclusive distributor of the COVID-19 vaccine in Palm
> Beach County. This was supposedly payback for a $100,000 donation to
> DeSantis’ re-election campaign — and a burden on Florida seniors.
> 
> DeSantis, a frequent critic of corporate media, refused to sit down
> for an interview, so “60 Minutes” reporter Sharyn Alfonsi confronted
> him at an Orlando news conference. That was her first mistake, because
> the entire exchange was captured on local TV, not just the parts that
> “60 Minutes” aired.
> 
> What “60 Minutes” viewers saw was Alfonsi’s criticism and 18 seconds
> of DeSantis saying, “That’s a fake narrative” and offering a few words
> about meeting with Palm Beach officials. To the national audience, it
> looked at if he hadn’t offered any facts behind the decision — just
> “fake narrative.”
> 
> But CBS cut DeSantis’ detailed, two-minute response.
> 
> The governor explained that Palm Beach County’s mayor had told him
> that 90 percent of Palm Beach seniors live within a few miles of a
> Publix, which has 65 stores in the county; that Publix was the only
> chain ready to go when he tried to get Walmart involved; that CVS and
> Walgreens were still busy distributing vaccines to nursing homes; and
> that DeSantis did on-the-ground follow-up with Palm Beach seniors, got
> positive feedback and had already succeeded in vaccinating 75 percent
> of them.
> 
> CBS now says it edited DeSantis’ response “for clarity.” What clarity,
> indeed.
> 
> Worse, after CBS quoted DeSantis saying he had met with the Palm Beach
> mayor, it cut to a county commissioner saying he’d never met with her
> — implying that the governor was lying about meeting local officials.
> Palm Beach County Mayor Dave Kerner, a Democrat, says the CBS ­report
> is “intentionally false,” ­because using Publix was his idea, and that
> CBS refused to listen to him before going on air.
> 
> Jared Moskowitz, a progressive Democrat who served as the state’s
> emergency-management director, says, “The other pharmacies were not
> ready to start. Period! Full Stop! No one from the governor’s office
> suggested Publix. It’s just absolute malarkey.”
> 
> https://nypost.com/2021/04/06/cbs-disgusting-smear-may-have-just-given-
> desantis-another-boost/ 
> 
> And people wonder why some folks say the media is the enemy.

It's intentionally criminal.  Should be a penalty.