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At CBS News, the show 60 Minutes has become a source of high melodrama across the media landscape. Many a journalist is upset that Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss called for a segment to be held from broadcast until more reporting can flesh out the story. This is a standard editing move, and yet those in journalism are reacting as if the Chi-Coms have shut down a news network.
What is ignored by the outrage set is that reporter Sharyn Alfonsi has a history of flawed reporting, and she has been shown to have disregarded official comments made by the administration. And while many are crowing that her segment has gone public on a Canadian app, no one is praising the high quality of her reporting.
This week saw more of the Epstein files being released – and more of the press trying to implicate the president with sketchy items held up as “evidence.” The most shared detail was a letter allegedly mailed by Jeffrey Epstein to another incarcerated sex offender, in which he claims that Trump was one of their own.
It stands as another piece of “proof” that hinges solely on the words of the man who was jailed for unforgivable crimes and not on establishing anything beyond his personal derangement over the president. Then we have the most glaring example of the press having two standards from MS NOW’s legal expert, Lisa Rubin. She impugns Trump over a widely circulated photo, but when new photos of Bill Clinton came out, she offered up every deflection away from culpability.
Now, crack one open and savor some outmoded media malpractice and misinformation.
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Bari Weiss called for a 60 Minutes segment to be corrected, and the collective media class is having a meltdown.
Brian Stelter seems particularly upset that a news network is striving to get the news correct, calling this a severe blow to their credibility
The 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi has a reputation for deeply slanted reporting – this examination of her Ron DeSantis vaccine hit job explains her tactics.
The deeply questionable Epstein letter has few in the press asking questions.
More “evidence” being highlighted amounts to nothing more than ranting calls made by anonymous tipsters.
Lisa Rubin declared Trump guilty based on a photo from a public event, yet Bill Clinton was given every excuse for a new compromising photo.
