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

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

CBS is still stuck on Hillary losing.  They never got over it.