The passage centers on a clip\/interview in which former CBS News \u201c60 Minutes\u201d reporter scott Pelley responds to accusations that the program is biased.<\/p>\n

It says Pelley-during an interview with NYT journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro after his reported firing-argued that \u201c60 Minutes\u201d staffers are not biased. When asked why people think it is biased, he criticizes bari Weiss\u2019s question for lacking a \u201cmetric,\u201d such as polls or market research, and notes that the organization \u201ccertainly didn\u2019t believe that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The text then claims Pelley made other contentious statements, including suggesting he believes there is a \u201csubtle political bias\u201d that he says he hadn\u2019t seen at \u201c60 Minutes\u201d before, and complaining about President Donald Trump\u2019s lawsuits involving the show. It references past reporting controversies involving interview editing<\/a> and a related settlement, as well as an example of a favorable interview with German prosecutors.<\/p>\n

the author offers an description for what they describe as denial of bias, attributing it to an insulated, self-significant \u201celite liberal\u201d mindset, and concludes with a brief personal anecdote meant to illustrate the idea of conservative \u201cpartisanship\u201d being criticized by liberals even on a college campus. <\/p>\n