CBS shifts to appease the right under new owner
CBS shifts to appease the right under new owner
CBS' new corporate owner has taken a series of concrete steps to address the concerns of the news division's sharpest critics — particularly President Trump and his allies.
In recent days, the network selected a new ombudsman for CBS News with strong conservative credentials. It promised to run full, unedited interviews on a key public affairs show after receiving blowback from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. And it's in talks to bring on a top news executive who believes the mainstream press is reflexively biased.
All of these decisions have come from top officials at Paramount under the new ownership of Skydance Media. And they represent a grand accommodation to Trump by CBS, known for its rich legacy of journalistic touchstones spanning back to the dawn of television news, including Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and 60 Minutes.
American mainstream media hasn’t qualified as real journalism for a long time now, it’s just propaganda mainly used to manufacture consent for new wars. This isn’t surprising at all, but hopefully it wakes up a few more liberals to the fact that if they want actual unbiased news sources they need to seek it out elsewhere. They won’t find it on cable tv.