The beleaguered and persecuted heroes of CBS
A reporter at CBS exhibits his delusional self-aggrandizement combined with paranoia:
“The most important thing is to have the courage to speak, to not let fear permeate the country so that everyone suddenly becomes silent,” the former “CBS Evening News” anchor added. “If you have the courage to speak, we are saved. If you fall silent, the country is doomed.” …
Cooper asked Pelley, a nearly 40-year veteran of CBS: “Do you still believe in journalism? Do you still believe in the role of journalists?”
“It is the only thing that’s gonna save the country,” Pelley responded. “You cannot have democracy without journalism. It can’t be done.”
What do they mean by “journalism”? They mean their own brand, which “saves” democracy by lying to the people. The news must be filtered through those “journalists” who controlled the spigot for so long and have now lost that ability, to a large extent. Pelley would like to keep his finger in the dike.
The article goes on to add:
Trump filed a legally dubious lawsuit against CBS over a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris last fall.
CBS News journalists and executives have sought to fight the suit and its allegations of “election interference.”
The authors fail to mention that the reason for the suit was deceptive editing on the part of CBS in order to make Harris’ performance look much better than it was. It is always possible and even easy to get some legal “experts” on the left to say a Trump lawsuit is dubious, and I actually doubt he will be victorious in this one. But at least let the reader know what Trump is alleging and why.
And yes, there was plenty of “election interference” in 2024 – that’s what the news networks now do best.
OK, from the end of 2019 to the beginning of 2025, how many stories did the ‘journalsts’ of C-BS file about Biden’s obvious impairment and the implications for policy-making?
How small is the violin for stahl and pelley? Can be observed with tweezers
They have done so heavy lifting for dems and pinning black hats on republicans that they shoulf have a hernia
At least going back to richard clarke* in 2002 as a benchmark
*clarke with the brave whistleblower see paul o’neil
I couldn’t find a link for it, but I recall that a decade-15 years back, a famous journalist was being interviewed for jury duty. She made a comment to the effect that journalists were objective, were truth-seekers and/or truth-tellers. The room of prospective jurors broke out in laughter.
The journalist said that was one of her most humiliating experiences.
A teacher asked his students to share what their dads do for a living;
Little Johnny said, “My dad’s a stripper at a gay club and he turns tricks in the alley to earn extra money.”
After class, teacher pulled him aside and asked,
“Johnny, is your dad really a stripper at a gay club?”
Little Johnny replied
“No, he’s a reporter for CNN, but I was too embarrassed to say that.”
My favorite quote from Joan Didion, also a journalist:
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One last thing to remember: writers are always selling someone out.
–Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” (1968)
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I just read through many of her essays. Didion holds up.
Joan Didion could be called an anti-journalist. Yes, she was there to get her stories and get paid, but for her the 60s became a personal crisis in which her faith that there was a “story,” a coherent objective narrative, collapsed.
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live… We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the “ideas” with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
–Joan Didion, “The White Album” (1979)
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Didion attempted a scrupulous, acidic honesty, even in regard to herself. She would have no patience with today’s so-called journalists.
“ABC Fires Senior White House Correspondent Terry Moran
“Following the suspension for vile public statements about President Trump and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, ABC has now decided to fire Senior White House Correspondent Terry Moran.
“‘At ABC News, we hold all of our reporters to the highest standards of objectivity, fairness and professionalism, and we remain committed to delivering straightforward, trusted journalism,” the ABC spokesperson adds.'”
(Not a joke.)
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/06/10/abc-fires-senior-white-house-correspondent-terry-moran/#more-272873
Don’t you know that these journalists spend four years in college to learn how to lie with plausible deniability? I’m impressed. (not) When I was in college, we used to refer to Huntley and Brinkley as hunkley and Bunkley and ridicule them. I was working in Brazil on a government contract and had gone into Sao Paulo one weekend and later was asked if I saw the riots. I hadn’t seen any riots, but my friend had a copy of Time or Newsweek with a story and pictures about the riots, I borrowed it and asked a friend if he knew where the pictures were from and he said they were from the riots in Argentina about two years ago. Journalists just make things up.
I lived in miami in the 80s when she wrote about it, the salvadorans probably didnt recognize it either they were fighting a draconian counterinsurgency against the leadership that would come later the ones that would seeds ms 13
Now her silly novel which was was meant to ape henry adams democracy and of course was optioned by netflix wasnt any better
Susan sontags son david reiff didnt get the story any better, about miami
This mirror universe is why they cant get a clue
https://www.joshbarro.com/p/bluesky-isnt-a-bubble-its-a-containment
Safe spaces unsafe for anyone
Feelings are not a basis for journalism see mailer thompson et al
They were unable to pull off the snowjob they succeeded in 2008 to our regret then apres le deluge
They didn’t expect The Spanish Inquisition.
Gets ’em every time.