Honk if you think disgraced Dan Rather has any moral authority to criticize someone else over how they sully the reputation of CBS News. People who deeply love a crusading leftist press even when it defrauds the public with phony documents and smears are the people who still love Dan Rather.
Rather took to his Substack page to pen a piece titled “MAGA Tested, Trump Approved News: A conservative opinion writer is now leading CBS News.” Because if your politics are two ticks to the left of Dan Rather, you must be “MAGA” news. “It is a dark day in the halls of CBS News,” he warns, like his fraudulent reporting never darkened the scene.
These jerks call themselves “independent” even when they sound like negative Democrat campaign commercials. Rather loves the I-word: “That deal and the hiring of Weiss signals to everyone, especially to the man in the Oval Office, that CBS is no longer independent, but under the tutelage of a conservative billionaire who is putting more than his thumb on the scale.”
Weiss, you see, is a tool of the oligarchy: “What Weiss lacks in journalistic bonafides, she makes up for in influence. Weiss has the ear of the billionaire class. 'The Free Press' is reportedly a daily must-read for the uber-wealthy who want to know what’s happening in American politics.”
So identify with the Sanders socialists, and you’re “independent.” If you hold both sides accountable, you’re hopelessly MAGA. This kind of journalist doesn’t care if their ratings are trash and they’re digging a financial black hole for the bosses. They feel good about themselves, and that’s all that matters.
These jerks also identify themselves as “sentinels of democracy” rather than lapdogs for the Democrats. “Rather than doing their jobs as sentinels of democracy, who independently cover the news and hold the powerful accountable, they now have to be concerned about how their pitches, their stories, and their scripts will be received by someone with a clear political agenda.”
Point and laugh at Dan Rather, claiming that never before have CBS News scripts carried “a clear political agenda.” CBS was so apolitical in “holding the powerful accountable” until the last week. In reality, they've gone from smearing Barry Goldwater as a Nazi to smearing Donald Trump as a Nazi.
This is the closing pout: “I wish I had been wrong decades ago when I warned about the corporatization and politicalization of the news media. But in Weiss’s ascension, it is clear that CBS News has tipped over the precipice: that corporate overlords in concert with an autocratic president are demolishing support for independent journalism in favor of financial gain, and in so doing undermining a key foundation of our democracy.”
It’s times like these when you relish the idea that a large majority of the American people don’t trust this “mainstream” media that boasts that its partisan propaganda is precious independence.
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