CBS ‘Week of Controversy
CBS has received widespread criticism for a 60-minute segment on Ron DeSantis, a ‘softball’ interview with Hunter Biden, and a tweet that has since been removed compared to ‘liberal activism’.
It was a few days for CBS News after the network was accused of liberal activism, the softball at the president’s son and a widely condemned ’60 minutes’ report on the Florida government, Ron DeSantis, R., in less than a week. .
Fox News presenter Kayleigh McEnany set up the network with a tweet summarizing the “revealing few days” for CBS News on Wednesday.
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“NOT good,” she wrote.
The criticism began Friday when CBS News drew sharp reactions over a report that critics call democratic activism.
In a piece entitled ‘3 ways companies can help fight Georgia’s restrictive new voting rights’, CBS Money Watch reporter Khristopher J. Brooks appeared to give advice on how companies can put political pressure on Republicans of Georgia, which just passed the Comprehensive Electoral Code. changes.
On Friday night, CBS News shared the article on social media, causing an intense setback. The tweet has since been removed from Saturday.
“LOL, this tweet is outright advocacy,” Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy responded.
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CBS also appears to be updating its headline, which reads on Saturday: ‘Activists are calling on big companies to challenge new voting laws. Here’s what they’re asking for. ‘
It’s a few days for CBS News after the network accused of liberal activism, that he’s balling softball at the president’s son and a widely condemned ’60 minute ‘report on the Florida government, Ron DeSantis, in less if broadcast for a week.
‘CBS Sunday Morning’ aired an interview with Hunter Biden which, according to critics of the president’s son, was too easy. During the interview, Biden admitted that when he was addicted to cocaine, he smoked parmesan cheese because it looked like the drug.
While the cheese bite was making headlines, correspondent Tracy Smith allowed the president’s son to declare that he did not know if the infamous laptop in the middle of last fall’s New York Post story belonged to him.
By Sunday night, the other two issues were small potatoes when ’60 Minutes’ aired a section criticized by Democratic civil servants, liberal media people, Conservative experts, Publix and DeSantis themselves.
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The report by Sharyn Alfonsi suggested that DeSantis Publix gave preferential treatment to distribute COVID-19 vaccines because the chain donated $ 100,000 to the governor’s political action committee. However, the concept has been widely rejected.
“If it’s true – if DeSantis had a ‘pay-per-play’ scheme for coronavirus vaccinations, it’s an explosive story. But ’60 Minutes’ really did not provide any evidence that DeSantis did anything like that. did not, “Poynter’s said. senior media writer Tom Jones wrote.
CBS News stood by the story, but left behind pay-for-play allegations from the statement issued by a ’60-minute ‘spokesman, but rather focused on two Democrats defending DeSantis.
“When state data in Florida revealed that people of color were vaccinated at a much slower rate than their richer neighbors, ’60 Minutes’ reported the facts about the development of the vaccine, which is controlled by the governor. We requested and conducted interviews with dozens of sources, relevant authorities. We requested an interview with Governor Ron DeSantis, he refused, we spoke twice with the State Emergency Management Board, Jared Moskowitz, but he did not want to “The idea that we ignore their perspective is untrue,” a CBS News spokesman told Fox News in a statement.
“Contrary to his statement yesterday, we also spoke to Palm Beach County Mayor David Kerner on the record. For more than 50 years, the facts reported by 60 MINUTES have often sparked debate and provoked strong reactions,” he said. the CBS News spokesman added. “Our story Sunday night speaks for itself.”
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Moskowitz and Kerner, both Democrats, spoke out at “60 minutes” after the story aired.
Asked why a defense of pay-to-play allegations from the ’60 Minutes’ report was not in the statement, a CBS News spokesman told Fox News that the news program simply repeats the demands that already made in local Florida newspapers and turned down. additional remark.
Publix called the notion that it receives special access ‘absolutely false and offensive’.
Dan Gainor, vice president of the Media Research Center, blew CBS across the segment.
“It was not just terrible journalism. It was a deliberate ’60 minutes’ hit on a supposed GOP 2024 presidential candidate. A formerly well-known name in the news served as proxy for the Democratic Party. “This is the kind of ‘news’ you would have seen on Pravda in the old Soviet Union, and it is completely inexcusable,’ Gainor told Fox News.
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CBS News should involve some real journalists in this. They should apologize for each of their news reports and the next issue of ’60 Minutes’. The apology should be detailed and explain how the network manipulates facts and the interview to to create a lie, “Gainor added.” Until they do, no conservative should respond to a CBS interview. ”
Fox News’ Joesph A. Wulfsohn, Nikolas Lanum and Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.