[The CBS News Scandals Keep Getting Worse

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/10/16/cbs-edits-n2646241

CBS News is currently embroiled in a confluence of ethics and credibility 
scandals.  Many critics condemned the network's handling of the Vice 
Presidential debate as biased, especially decisions surrounding cutting 
off the microphone of Republican JD Vance as he calmly fact-checked a 
misleading 'fact-check' from one of the moderators -- after the network 
had agreed to avoid such fact-checks, and to silence microphones only 
under extraordinary circumstances.  It was a bad look for CBS, but Vance 
managed to win the debate anyway.  Then came the insane internal drama 
over a top CBS anchor daring to pose reasonable and pointed questions to a 
left-wing author whose new book is rife with distortions and untruths 
about Israel.  The featured author had previously portrayed 9/11 first 
responders as monsters, and subsequently confessed that if he'd been a 
Gazan, he may have personally participated in the October 7th slaughter of 
Jews by Hamas terrorists.  But the 'scandal' within CBS was that their 
colleague had the temerity to push back on this man, who is a progressive 
darling.  The host was humiliated and rebuked for engaging in journalism, 
apparently at the prompting of woke staffers who objected to tough 
questioning of their ideological sacred cow.  

A few voices within CBS world defended their colleague, but it's clear 
that anti-journalism elements have the upper hand in this newsroom battle, 
as CBS bosses had also instructed their team not to refer to Jerusalem, 
the capital city of Israel, as being in Israel at all.  It's part of a 
disturbing pattern.  Incidentally, another host of that same show has 
faced virtually no criticism, and certainly no internal activist mob (a 
staple within 'elite' newsrooms these days), for allegedly discussing her 
questions with the subject before the interview. Next up, we had the 
Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview.  Correspondent Bill Whitaker did a 
fair and professional job, but the network is now under hot scrutiny for 
its editing decisions and shocking lack of transparency, as discrepancies 
have arisen.  Watch this:



The Free Press published an excellent editorial addressing the 
contretemps:

The edit suggests a possible violation of the CBS News standards guide, 
which states that “answers to different questions may not be combined to 
give the impression of one continuous response.” It goes on to say: “We 
cannot create an answer merely because we wish the subject had said it 
better,” and that journalists should “always edit interviews in a 
straightforward manner to preserve the sense of the interview.” You don’t 
need to be a broadcast journalist to understand why these are important 
rules. Excessive editing distorts reality—which is the opposite of what 
good journalism is supposed to do. Given the fact that editing can mislead 
viewers, broadcasters will often release a full unedited transcript of 
important interviews...Given the stakes here—a rare interview with a 
presidential candidate a month before a very close election—you would 
think CBS would do the same. But no transcript has been forthcoming. 
Because of that, we still don’t know Harris’s answer to an important 
question—one with profound political and diplomatic ramifications. It’s a 
question that’s easy to answer. Or should be. We asked 60 Minutes if 
they’d make the transcript available, and why they hadn’t done so already. 
They did not respond.

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There is no good reason to withhold the full transcript, especially given 
the dearth of serious interviews to which Harris has subjected herself 
during her truncated, election-nullifying presidential campaign.  Former 
CBS reporter Catherine Herridge points to ample precedent in favor of 
making the entire exchange available:



I don't necessarily believe there's some smoking gun bombshell of bias 
lurking in the unreleased transcript, but there is no defense for CBS to 
continue to withhold it -- particularly because it looks like they may 
have violated their own ethical rules here.  And now we'll add another 
example into the mix, via the Speaker of the House:



Speaker Johnson's staff recorded their end of the Face the Nation 
interview, and were therefore able to reveal that CBS snipped out 
meaningful portions of his answers on a significant subject.  I understand 
that taped interviews are sometimes edited for time, and nefarious 
intentions shouldn't automatically be assumed or imputed.  But given this 
network's track record over the past few weeks, there is no reason to 
extend them the benefit of the doubt.  I'll leave you with a reminder that 
there's a reason why Donald Trump declined to participate in a 60 Minutes 
interview, dating back to another media and censorship scandal from the 
last presidential election.


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We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that 
stupid people won't be offended.

Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem.  It has none.

No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.  
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.

Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden 
fiasco, President Trump.  

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the 
The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood 
queer liberal democrat donors.

President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed 
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.