If there's one thing that was reaffirmed from the recent drama over the "60 Minutes" segment on the deported illegals who spent time in an El Salvadoran prison, it's that the media have learned absolutely nothing.
When last we left you, the airing of the segment, which sympathetically portrayed the illegals, was yanked before airing on the network by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, who said in a statement that “Holding stories that aren’t ready for whatever reason — that they lack sufficient context, say, or that they are missing critical voices — happens every day in every newsroom.” Reading between the lines, it looks as though she felt the story lacked balance.
Reportedly, one of the things Weiss wanted to see that wasn't in there was an on-the-record interview from a high-ranking Trump administration official, such as White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Critics of Weiss, including the reporter at the center of the story, Sharyn Alfonsi, have accused Weiss - without evidence - of temporarily shelving it for "political" reasons.
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If the uproar from the Usual Suspects over Weiss' rejection of the segment in its current form wasn't enough to convince folks that more of the same is yet to come, we turn to the quintessential media/Democrat apologist, former NBC News "Meet the Press" anchor Chuck Todd, who proclaimed Saturday (before the CBS News story broke), that it wasn't media bias and malfeasance that was to blame for their low approval ratings but sources and "experts" that turned out to be unreliable and untrustworthy:
"One of the reasons I think trust in media has fallen to so, so low is remember what the media is," Todd said on Newsmax's "America Right Now." "It's a reflection of 'I always say I'm as good as the sources I have, not necessarily the sources I want at times.'"
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"We may be reporting what the 'experts' tell us," he said. "But if the public doesn't trust those experts, and then we in the media are quoting those experts, they don't trust us."
Later, Todd would say, "I put the blame on big tech and algorithms that sort of, I think, make it too easy for too many people to live in a bubble, a filter bubble."
Watch:
Chuck Todd blames Americans’ cratering trust in the media on “lack of reliable political leadership” and “big tech algorithms."
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 21, 2025
It could never be the relentless stream of lies and hoaxes perpetrated on Americans by people *like Chuck.*
Truly amazing stuff. pic.twitter.com/ivAqCQigPG
Um, the only people living in a "bubble" here are media figures like Chuck Todd, who continue blaming everyone else instead of looking at the man in the mirror, which is where much of the problem resides.
Yes, I'm sure there are plenty of unreliable sources out there that give the press bad information. That has been well-documented. But the issue is that journalists like Chuck Todd have relied on bad-faith actors for information (like Adam Schiff, for example) year after year, report after report, even though they weren't just giving out incorrect information - they were deliberately lying.
And the reason those sources continue to be used is the even bigger, perhaps central problem: Most journalists themselves are leftists, willing to help further along leftist/Democrat narratives regardless of whether they are truthful. Instead of doggedly searching for the truth, we get the left-wing media echo chamber instead. We saw that with the Russia collusion hoax, for example, the "very fine people" lie, and there have been many more along those lines.
But something we should never forget about the Chuck Todds of this country is that while he wants to blame everyone else for the media's failures, he would also like you to forget about the one time a source did tell him something that was highly accurate - and yet Todd chose not to report on it until after the infamous June 2024 presidential debate, when was finally cool in media circles to do so:
“I’m not gonna out the cabinet secretary. But I had a cabinet secretary two years ago, okay- two years ago, out of the blue asked me, ‘You really think he’s gonna-- he can’t run again like this?’ And I said ‘Well, you have more interaction with him than I do,’ and they said, ‘I don’t have a lot of interaction with him.’ This is a pretty senior cabinet secretary. So, and this was two years ago. This is one of those, you know, it’s the classic open secret, nonversation, right? It’s the story everybody knows and everybody was afraid to talk about.”
So... to sum up: there are those in the MSM who will eagerly and uncritically amplify highly dubious sources as long as it advances certain leftist narratives, but will look the other way when it comes to a reliable source and will willingly abstain from reporting anything that portrays Democrats in a bad light, as they did with Joe Biden's decline and the White House cover-up surrounding it.
As I noted earlier, this is just more proof that they learned nothing from the 2024 election and more evidence of why the American people should continue not trusting them as we head into the 2026 midterm election season, where the legacy media's misinformation campaigns are likely to be worse than they've ever been.
Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.
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