Before becoming president, Trump sued CBS over 60 Minutes’ interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris shortly before the election. Now, Trump’s newly elevated Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, is using the levers of government to put pressure on the network.
“Now, more than ever, only a fearless press stands between an aggressive [White House] and the public,” former CBS News correspondent Marvin Kalb posted on a Facebook page for CBS alumni. “If news organizations such as CBS bend a knee before a president, then we have all taken a big step towards autocracy.”
CBS tied itself in knots trying not to call Elon Musk’s Nazi salute a Nazi salute. CBS’s management is clearly terrified of offending Trump and his people and desperate to appease them.
CBS actually fired a reporter who, on their personal socials, said “yeah, nazis are bad fuck this guy” essentially. so they fired her.
they’re complicit. they’re on my shitlist along with everything else i’ve quit in the last month.