{"id":2371389,"date":"2024-11-20T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-election-year\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:47:17","slug":"cbs-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-election-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-election-year\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS&#8217;\u00a0Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Election Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcbs-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-election-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2371389&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A \u2063recent Gallup \u2063poll revealed that trust in mass media among Americans has plummeted, with less than a third expressing confidence in traditional news\u2063 sources. This decline\u200d is highlighted by CBS&#8217;s handling of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-walz-on-guns-ive-become-friends-with-school-shooters\/\" title=\"Tim Walz On Guns: \u2018I\u2019ve Become Friends With School Shooters\u2019\">recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcenany-rips-tapper-after-he-implies-shes-appealing-to-conspiracists\/\" title=\"McEnany Rips Tapper After He Implies She\u2019s Appealing To Conspiracists\">vice-presidential debate<\/a><\/a>. CBS moderators, \u2064Norah O&#8217;Donnell and Margaret Brennan, came under criticism for perceived bias against Republican candidate J.D.\u200b Vance,\u200d exacerbated by O&#8217;Donnell\u2019s previous remarks\u2062 blaming Donald Trump\u200c for inciting political violence.<\/p>\n<p>During the debate, Vance was consistently interrupted, while the moderators failed to adequately fact-check Democratic candidate Tim Walz,\u200c reinforcing suspicions \u2062of media \u200dfavoritism. Following the debate,\u200c CBS aired an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris that raised further\u200c concerns about\u200b the network\u2019s integrity, particularly\u2062 due to discrepancies in\u2062 Harris&#8217;s answers and \u2064their\u2063 refusal to release \u2063the full transcript.<\/p>\n<p>These issues have\u200d spurred calls \u2064for investigations into CBS\u2019s practices, with some, including Donald Trump, describing the situation as a significant broadcasting scandal. Additionally, internal conflicts \u200bwithin CBS surfaced\u2062 when morning anchor \u2063Tony Dokoupil \u2062questioned the anti-Israel sentiments\u200c in author \u200cTa-Nehisi Coates&#8217; \u2062work, prompting staff uproar. CBS&#8217;s actions have contributed to a growing critique of corporate media&#8217;s role in \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">shaping public perception leading<\/a> up to the election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In an election where Americans finally began to tune out legacy media, CBS drove the decline.<\/p>\n<p>A new Gallup poll from October found Americans&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/16\/scotus-has-higher-approval-rating-than-before-dobbs-decision-while-trust-in-media-plummets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trust<\/a> in mass media hit a new low with just less than a third maintaining a &ldquo;great deal&rdquo; or a &ldquo;fair amount&rdquo; of confidence in newspapers, television networks, and radio to report on events &ldquo;fully, accurately and fairly.&rdquo; The survey results were published about two weeks after CBS moderated the vice-presidential debate that gave Americans good reason to stop believing corporate media was the appropriate medium for facilitating U.S. elections. <\/p>\n<p>If CBS executives believed they could rehabilitate the media&rsquo;s image as a trusted avenue of fair and balanced information to guide voters in an election year, they have been proven wrong by their own network.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 1, vice-presidential debate moderators Norah O&rsquo;Donnell and Margaret Brennan validated the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/01\/j-d-vance-will-be-fighting-three-democrats-at-tonights-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suspicions<\/a> of those skeptical that CBS would offer Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio., an even forum to challenge Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. O&rsquo;Donnell had already recently <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/01\/vp-debate-moderator-blamed-trump-for-increasing-the-threat-of-political-violence-after-second-assassination-attempt\/\">blamed<\/a> Donald Trump and his running mate for &ldquo;increasing the threat of political violence&rdquo; even after a second assassination attempt on the then-GOP presidential nominee. In 2022, the outlet also participated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/13\/abc-cbs-and-other-corporate-media-black-out-coverage-of-twitter-files-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">media blackout<\/a> of the &ldquo;Twitter Files&rdquo; and O&rsquo;Donnell <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/16\/in-viral-tweet-cbss-norah-odonnell-parrots-doj-lie-that-fbi-didnt-steal-trumps-passports\/\">peddled<\/a> the narrative that federal agents had not actually seized former President Donald Trump&rsquo;s passports in the raid of Mar-a-Lago. In other words, the veteran television host with more than two decades of experience in legacy media carried the typical biases Americans can expect from such outlets. <\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 1, neither O&rsquo;Donnell nor Brennan <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/02\/how-does-tim-walz-explain-his-stolen-valor-controversy-cbs-moderators-didnt-bother-asking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seriously fact-checked<\/a> Walz, but <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/02\/vance-to-corrupt-moderators-you-broke-the-rule-on-real-time-fact-checking-so-im-going-to-fact-check-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rushed<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/01\/walz-dismissal-of-springfield-immigration-crisis-signals-four-more-years-of-open-borders-if-harris-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interfere<\/a> with Vance&rsquo;s answer on immigration.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The people that I&rsquo;m most worried about in Springfield, Ohio are the American citizens who have had their lives destroyed by Kamala Harris&rsquo; open border,&rdquo; Vance said, amplifying the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/springfield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">concerns<\/a> of residents within his home state.<\/p>\n<p>The CBS moderators <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/01\/walz-dismissal-of-springfield-immigration-crisis-signals-four-more-years-of-open-borders-if-harris-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reinforced<\/a> Walz against the senator.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just to clarify for our viewers,&rdquo; Brennan said, &ldquo;Springfield, Ohio, does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Brennan continued to deny Vance a chance to respond until the Republican candidate eventually spoke over the CBS moderators and forced the network to let him speak. &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s important to say what&rsquo;s actually going on,&rdquo; Vance said. &ldquo;So there&rsquo;s an application called the CBP One App, where you can go as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole, and be granted legal status at the wave of a Kamala Harris open-border wand.&rdquo; The mics were then muted as the two candidates started to speak over each other.<\/p>\n<p>CBS&rsquo; election interference continued throughout October. In the week after the vice-presidential debate, CBS released an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris for the network&rsquo;s traditional election-year special on &ldquo;60 Minutes.&rdquo; Trump refused to participate in a sit-down interview for the program this fall after a combative Lesley Stahl&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/22\/heres-all-the-evidence-lesley-stahl-falsely-claimed-doesnt-exist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blatantly claimed<\/a>&nbsp;four years ago that evidence implicating Joe Biden in his son&rsquo;s laptop scandal and in the effort to spy on Trump&rsquo;s campaign in 2016 simply didn&rsquo;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>The network moved forward with interviewing Harris, whose participation raised more questions about CBS&rsquo; integrity than it did answers about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carson-points-out-that-every-democratic-plan-has-backfired-in-trumps-favor-as-seen-in-the-bible-2\/\" title=\"Carson points out that every Democratic plan has backfired in Trump&#039;s favor, as seen in the Bible\">vice president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s capabilities. CBS incidentally released two different answers from Harris to the same question related to Israel presented by Bill Whitaker during the interview before refusing to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/21\/cbs-news-release-the-full-kamala-harris-interview-transcript-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reveal<\/a> the full transcript to explain the discrepancy. The apparent deceptive edit presented a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/22\/is-cbs-refusing-to-release-its-full-kamala-60-minutes-interview-because-it-let-her-redo-answers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cleaned-up answer<\/a> from Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/17\/cbs-faces-news-distortion-complaint-amid-60-minutes-harris-interview-edit-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in place<\/a> of another one of the word salads that defined her campaign. <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>CBS never did release a full transcript to explain the discrepancies perceived as blatant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/01\/media\/trump-cbs-lawsuit-harris-60-minutes-interview\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">election interference<\/a>. The refusal to clear any confusion provoked a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)&nbsp;to say the debacle likely warrants an <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/22\/fcc-commissioner-edited-cbs-harris-interview-should-probably-be-investigated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">investigation<\/a>. In a recent podcast interview with Joe Rogan ahead of election day, Donald Trump, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/01\/media\/trump-cbs-lawsuit-harris-60-minutes-interview\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sued<\/a> the outlet over the matter, said CBS&rsquo; actions amounted to the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/26\/trump-cbs-editing-harris-answers-is-biggest-scandal-in-broadcast-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">biggest scandal in broadcast history<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re diminishing themselves, they&rsquo;re killing all their credibility,&rdquo; Rogan said in approval. <\/p>\n<p>Several months prior to the interview, a local CBS affiliate also opened the election by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/26\/cbs-denies-kamala-harris-raised-money-to-bail-out-blm-rioters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">denying<\/a> Harris ever fundraised to bail out Minnesota rioters for &ldquo;Black Lives Matter&rdquo; despite a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KamalaHarris\/status\/1267555018128965643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a> remaining live on X that shows otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>While CBS worked to propel the Harris\/Walz ticket through October, trouble within the network publicly erupted after morning anchor Tony Dokoupil interviewed author Ta-Nahisi Coates about an, as Fox News summarized it, an &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cbs-news-staff-uproar-after-host-challenges-guests-anti-israel-views-network-leadership-responds\">anti-Israel<\/a>&rdquo; portion of his book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Message-Ta-Nehisi-Coates\/dp\/0593230388\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RY2AWRJL4RBD&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.iXnO32m6tAgULNO4fuPDd609QGAX50y2H1fJ6wVmWwasHbLL9c6gHIL3-nkq5llC1iIKTAnQ4bti23UMTSHHxWrILq952nfvFd5PpjOMfan1Ko7_F4ZMHfRXS0qLhVkcyw3pYeAull-kx_L8rIGzhw.TLitD_5seNtwZGd66jCYAkEr8baexMB2Cc7qTwvvQA0&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+message+ta-nehisi+coates&amp;qid=1731518706&amp;sprefix=the+message%2Caps%2C561&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Message<\/a><\/em>. Dokoupil offered criticism that the author&rsquo;s views came across as extreme and lacking in important details<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have to say, when I read the book, I imagine if I took your name out of it, took away the awards, the acclaim, took the cover off the book, publishing house goes away, the content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist,&rdquo; Dokoupil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cbs-news-staff-uproar-after-host-challenges-guests-anti-israel-views-network-leadership-responds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So then I found myself wondering, why does Ta&rsquo;Nehisi Coates, who I&rsquo;ve known for a long time, read his work for a long time, very talented, smart guy, leave out so much? Why leave out that Israel is surrounded by countries that want to eliminate it? Why leave out that Israel deals with terror groups that want to eliminate it? Why not detail anything of the first and the second Intifada, the caf&eacute; bombings, the bus bombings, the little kids blown to bits. Is it because you just don&rsquo;t believe that Israel in any condition has a right to exist?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His criticism was met by an uproar among CBS staff apparently in tears to whom Dokoupil, a Jewish anchor, reportedly &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cbs-tony-dokoupil-expressed-regret-upset-colleagues-tense-exchange-anti-israel-author-report\">expressed regret<\/a>.&rdquo; He was also reportedly &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/jewish-cbs-anchor-forced-meet-race-culture-unit-after-grilling-pro-palestinian-author-report\">forced<\/a>&rdquo; to meet with the network&rsquo;s Race and Culture Unit. Dokoupil&rsquo;s actions were also admonished by CBS leadership, which claimed Dokoupil&rsquo;s interview did not meet the outlet&rsquo;s &ldquo;editorial standards,&rdquo; The Free Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/cbs-marks-october-7-by-admonishing-tony-dokoupil\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The episode was an embarrassing scandal to coincide with the network&rsquo;s activist coverage on behalf of Vice President Harris, underscoring the currents of extremism running through CBS and undermining the credibility of the legacy media.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is a national correspondent for The Federalist and the co-author of &#8220;Fat and Unhappy: How &#8216;Body Positivity&#8217; Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself).&#8221; He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>. Buy &#8220;Fat and Unhappy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sz7EDAJI1c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an election where Americans tuned out legacy media, CBS led the decline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2371390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/CBS-e1732128165569.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7585,32133,34187,36497,5894],"class_list":["post-2371389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs","tag-current-events","tag-election-year","tag-media-critique","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/CBS-e1732128165569.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371393,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371389\/revisions\/2371393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}