CBS News, once the gold standard of television journalism, has been bought by the Trump-friendly Ellison’s, tapped the head of a right-wing think tank as its ombudsman, and appointed a conservative provocateur, albeit a successful one, with no experience in broadcasting little and news as its chief editor. So we watch with interest as the debut of the newly appointed anchor, Tony Dukopoul. It wasn’t encouraging.
He charged the legacy media, this was in the note beforehand, relies too much on elites and academics, and he could have been reading from the Trump playbook when he cited questionable coverage of stories ranging from NAFTA to Russiagate to Hillary Clinton’s emails to Hunter Biden’s laptops. To take just one, please, Mr. Anchorman, spell out what you thought was wrong about the Russia coverage and whether he thought that Robert Mueller’s 34 indictments and the Russian effort to interfere with the 16 elections were flawed or the conclusion of the Senate Intelligence Committee. And are there any Trump stories like the money-making deals or scams he and his family are engaged in now, or even the pardon of criminals who violently assaulted the Capitol in January 6, also deserve better coverage?
As an aside, the new kid said he would be much more transparent and accountable than the legendary anchor, Walter Cronkite.
Maybe next he’ll vow to be more courageous than Edward R. Burrow. I don’t watch the evening news or any real nightly news most of the time, but I do watch 60 Minutes, which is great journalism with the likes of Leslie Stahl. There’s no one better. And I think the Face the Nation on Sunday mornings with Margaret Brennan is top notch. Does Mr. Dukoppel disagree with that? Can he measure up to those standards? This has not been a good start for the new anchor or for CBS News.
Corporate news is corporate news and it is bad news. Whether it is fox, CBS, NBC,ABC, CNN, it is all corporate. That means they do the bidding for other corporate criminal companies such as the members of the medical mafia.
What a lot of people don’t know is that local affiliates are not owned locally. There’s a good chance or local news station is owned by a criminal company with Nazi ties known as Sinclair or heartland media who are also fascist/corporate. Corporatism is fascism.
The weather forecasters at our local station are not allowed to mention climate change.
People need to wake up and understand that we have a lot of enemies and of course Trump and the Republicans are among them but more insidious and more covert and ultimately more dangerous is corporate. Corporate is the most dangerous and entrenched enemy of democracy and civil rights. But it gets worse, social media platforms are also owned and controlled by criminals and Nazis like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Steve Balmer and Bill Gates etc.
YouTube is a huge danger to the truth. Those gangsters are now allowing dishonest and dangerous advertising which are extremely deceptive and the medical stuff is extremely dangerous. It’s far worse than that crackpot RFK Junior.
Google sanitizes truth from the Internet. From time to time see Europeans love you fines against Google criminals but in AmeriKKKa google runs rough shod over free speech by shadow banning, censoring comments and de boosting. They also control content by not allowing even certain words to be spoken on their dirty filthy fascist corporate lying platform. Not only that, Google and it’s YouTube stepchild are in violation of the antitrust laws.
The bottom line is, the news media and social media is at the mercy of fascism. Corporatism = fascism. Never forget that.
Boycott CBS (Cruddy Bull Shit)