So what to make of someone like say ABC’s Jonathan Karl discussion (on the View) how he was texting and calling Trump on election night to congratulate him, and bent the knee to say the words Trump wanted to hear about how it was the greatest comeback of all time, bull—-t though that may be. The “media is friendly only with the left” narrative is tired old nonsense.
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That's not what I meant. They are on the Chuck Schumer branch of the Democrat Party (not the Bernie/AOC wing) and they tend to tow the line like that.
Bari Weiss says "We need to be the news."
This is really the way social media operates. Get people talking.
This is really the way social media operates. Get people talking.
They tried to be his first 10 days on the road. Ratings wise, hasn't worked. Do you think they should pivot to be more conservative? @TheBigA
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If CBS does actually become Fox lite, think its game over for them. Conservatives already have channels of choice and aren't going to CBS for that. I am okay with Tony so far, but don't want the broadcast to start spewing that kind of stuff.
That's what it feels like more than anything. I think people need an outlet that is distant from both parties. Whether this will be it remains to be seen.
According to this, the president never said "inject bleach."
Fact Check: Trump never advised people to 'inject bleach' to tackle COVID-19. This is what he said
The president's comments about bleach and COVID-19 resurfaced after he claimed in September 2025 that there was a link between Tylenol and autism.ca.news.yahoo.com
There's no need to tell people what the president said. Just play it and let them hear him.
No! He needs to be fact-checked (as all U.S. Presidents do). While fact-checking won't change the minds of die-hard believers, it will assist with those sitting on the fence. The purpose of the news media is not to endorse a President or even behave as his/her mouthpiece; rather, but ultimately tell truth to power, regardless of ratings.
You make a good albeit terrible point. There are many people in the U.S. who are *not* looking for the truth (i.e. the sum of all factual information) but only support for their own viewpoints. This has been happening for a long time but the computer age, especially the social media sites with their machinations to keep users on those sites, have really hardened peoples' beliefs!
Bias is bias, regardless of the side you take.
Are you a Trump supporter?
I'm a media supporter.
The media is mostly anti-Trump.
While it may be called "news" almost all of Fox News schedule consists of commentary, not hard news reporting.
While it may be called "news" almost all of Fox News schedule consists of commentary, not hard news reporting.
As we have seen in radio, the "all news" audience is generally different from the talk format listener.
The whole "injecting bleach" debate aside, there is an objective reality that exists, and having "news" outlets "both sides" said objective reality is...problematic. CBS News was - in the days of Cronkite - properly lauded for their coverage of the Apollo program and the Moon landings. There are now disturbingly popular "new media" podcasts who insist that the Moon landings were "fake." I've been watching a series of videos on the YouTube covering a podcast that actually had an Apollo astronaut who'd been to the Moon essentially telling him to his face that it was all made up.
That's not a thing where a responsible broadcaster would be able to say "well, this person says it was all fake" and present it as a situation where "both sides" are equally valid.
This is beyond absurd.
We’re aware. That doesn’t change the perception of the loyal audience that it is news. And you’re not going to peel them away in large numbers by doing the same basic thing with a slightly different veneer.
Peeling away the Fox News audience isn't going to help CBS News. The Fox News audience is over 60. So is the CBS News audience. What they have to do at CBS News is find a younger audience. The problem is that young people generally don't watch real-time linear TV. What I'm reading in the Bari Weiss interviews is she's aiming to create "viral" content that will attract those who mainly get their news from YouTube and other online sources. It's a very different thing. It doesn't come from sitting at a desk in a NY studio and telling people what happened.
I get it. You see it as ideological. It's more than that. Even if CBS News is somehow successful in reaching a younger audience, it won't show up in Nielsen ratings, because for the most part, that audience won't see the content on a broadcast station. Therefore, they won't be measured in traditional ratings.