Isn't this what everyone expects to happen anyway? The Ellison techbros clearly intend to turn CBS into another rightwing TV propaganda mouthpiece, and you can't do that with real journalists in the house.
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"Newsroom culture clash" at CBS News
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Isn't this what everyone expects to happen anyway? The Ellison techbros clearly intend to turn CBS into another rightwing TV propaganda mouthpiece, and you can't do that with real journalists in the house.
Apparently Bari Weiss wasn't the first to censor a piece at CBS News:
barrettmedia.com
We're assuming her recollection of this incident is factual.
Catherine Herridge: CBS News Blocked Live Elon Musk Interview Over Editorial Concerns
"How do you tell someone who's committed to free speech that your network can only do it taped, only if they edit it, and it can only be on their platform?"
barrettmedia.com
We're assuming her recollection of this incident is factual.
The article in question came from the time the Redstones were running Paramount and the priorities of that time related to how to cover the Musk story about running X.Apparently Bari Weiss wasn't the first to censor a piece at CBS News:
Catherine Herridge: CBS News Blocked Live Elon Musk Interview Over Editorial Concerns
"How do you tell someone who's committed to free speech that your network can only do it taped, only if they edit it, and it can only be on their platform?"
We're assuming her recollection of this incident is factual.
She says she didn't go back to Musk with the demand from CBS News that it be a taped interview instead of live, which is on her.Apparently Bari Weiss wasn't the first to censor a piece at CBS News:
Catherine Herridge: CBS News Blocked Live Elon Musk Interview Over Editorial Concerns
"How do you tell someone who's committed to free speech that your network can only do it taped, only if they edit it, and it can only be on their platform?"
We're assuming her recollection of this incident is factual.
Yeah she’s crying over spilled milk. I’ve done thousands of tv interviews. Whether it’s live or not doesn’t matter
I'm assuming it's the Catherine Herridge thing. She talked about it more than a year ago:
Fired CBS reporter reveals bosses blocked her Elon Musk interview
Herridge claims her former bosses blocked an interview she had snagged with Elon Musk in early 2023 because they were afraid what the outspoken tech mogul might say.
nypost.com
And look, it absolutely DOES matter whether it's live or not (I did TV news interviews every day for 30 years and radio interviews for 10 more years after that---until two years ago this month).
There are people that you can trust with a live shot. A ketamine addict who's blowing up the conventions of social media and speech ain't one of them.
Herridge quoted CBS brass as saying "We don't know what he's going to say." She'd like you to think that means in terms of a message or opinion.
I promise you what they meant was "We don't know what anti-semitic rant he's likely to go on, who he'll personally slander, which of the words the FCC says we can't say he will say and whether he'll be in some altered state."
There is nothing objectionable about editing a newsmaker interview for time, context and clarity. That, most often, provides better insights into a topic. And at the time of the Herridge/Musk thing, CBS News had a Standards and Practices unit with stringent rules about editing.
Until fairly recently, there was only ONE person who could insist that you take them live, and that was the President of the United States. In the last 20 years, even that has become negotiable. The networks are more willing to say "no" to a sitting president.
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On his first day as CBS Evening News anchor, Tony Dokoupil is set to take a private plane to Miami so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham while Bari Weiss tags along with a cadre of armed bodyguards. 
www.independent.co.uk
A private plane and ‘Bari pitches’: Inside Weiss’ chaotic CBS Evening News reboot
EXCLUSIVE: The new CBS News editor-in-chief has chartered a private plane for the team, made last-minute logistical changes and fired off ‘Bari Pitches.’ Weiss is once again accused of creating behind-the-scenes turmoil with her decision-making ahead of CBS Evening News’ latest reboot
www.independent.co.uk
On his first day as CBS Evening News anchor, Tony Dokoupil is set to take a private plane to Miami so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham while Bari Weiss tags along with a cadre of armed bodyguards.
A private plane and ‘Bari pitches’: Inside Weiss’ chaotic CBS Evening News reboot
EXCLUSIVE: The new CBS News editor-in-chief has chartered a private plane for the team, made last-minute logistical changes and fired off ‘Bari Pitches.’ Weiss is once again accused of creating behind-the-scenes turmoil with her decision-making ahead of CBS Evening News’ latest reboot
If KFC were from Japan instead of Kentucky, it would be....
On his first day as CBS Evening News anchor, Tony Dokoupil is set to take a private plane to Miami so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham while Bari Weiss tags along with a cadre of armed bodyguards.
A private plane and ‘Bari pitches’: Inside Weiss’ chaotic CBS Evening News reboot
EXCLUSIVE: The new CBS News editor-in-chief has chartered a private plane for the team, made last-minute logistical changes and fired off ‘Bari Pitches.’ Weiss is once again accused of creating behind-the-scenes turmoil with her decision-making ahead of CBS Evening News’ latest reboot
Well, that should put the end to any credibility that Mr. Dokoupil has of being "one of us."
From a propaganda standpoint, a real tour of the country poses problems for Bari, the Ellisons and Trump. A real "man of the people" tour would have Tony with farmers in the heartland. But then tariffs come into play.
So Bari opts for making it look like everyone is doing well---what's your problem?---and since it's going to be a party, invites herself.
Charles Kuralt is a fading memory.
1973 FMC 2900R Motorhome, Used by Charles Kuralt for CBS "On The Road" Television Show - The Henry Ford
This FMC motorhome carried a three-man TV crew on America's back roads, where they took time "to meet people, listen to yarns, and feel the seasons change." The CBS-produced show, <EM>On the Road</EM>, featured Charles Kuralt's superbly crafted stories about ordinary people who were often quite...
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Maybe so, but with a sensitive enough seismometer we could locate his grave based on all the spinning he's doing by now.
CBS News declining the dubious privilege of giving Elon Musk a live platform to say whatever he wants is hardly censorship -- it is showing editorial judgement.Apparently Bari Weiss wasn't the first to censor a piece at CBS News:
Catherine Herridge: CBS News Blocked Live Elon Musk Interview Over Editorial Concerns
"How do you tell someone who's committed to free speech that your network can only do it taped, only if they edit it, and it can only be on their platform?"
We're assuming her recollection of this incident is factual.
Precisely. Moreover, it was not a completed and vetted piece. They weren’t denying an interview opportunity, simply a live vs. recorded interview.
I got an item from the CBS Evening News in my Facebook news feed today. It was a mission statement of sorts, presented as a series of promises/talking points/boasts. One was simply "We love America." Implying, then, that Murrow and Cronkite didn't? How very Joe McCarthy of CBS!
Yep. Me too. They've replaced the 38-page CBS News Standards and Practices manual with "Five Guiding Principles":
Old TV journalist observation: The entire structure and writing style is cribbed from Chevy's print ads for the launch of the Vega 56 years ago:
And we all know how the Vega turned out.
Sorry. I don't get that at all. Both Murrow and Cronkite were forced out of their roles at CBS News in controversial ways. The Murrow story was depicted by George Clooney in "Good Night & Good Luck." The Cronkite story was less celebrated. But he was forced out of his role as anchor by Dan Rather. Of course years later Rather himself was forced out in a controversial way,
So if there is a history and tradition at CBS News, it is in forcing out celebrated journalists in controversial ways. To me, this just follows a long established company transition. I'm not sure if John Dickerson is a name people will defend in the same way as they did Murrow & Cronkite.
Steve Hartman is doing something similar.
Those five guiding principles are, what one of my former communications professors at LMU would call, "glittering generalities." They look nice on paper (and some of them are legitimate targets to hit) but without a road map to get there, that's all they are. Also, given who Miss Weiss is actually answering to (they're lying about the corporate part in that first principle), I really don't see CBS getting anywhere near those targets, even if (as TheBigA is hoping) ratings actually do improve.
The goal isn't achieving those targets. The goal is to improve the lowest rated network news organization.
True and it sounds like a sneak preview on what happens when Sharyn Alfonsi, Tanya Simon and crew that were with them at the CECOT story are forced out because of Weiss and Ellisons role in their decision process.
Yes and Tanya Simon actually approved the CECOT story in some of the articles because she's the Executive Producer and director at 60 Minutes. We shall see if she gets removed due to Weiss and Ellisons role in overturning Tanya Simon approval to run that story.