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When CBS News last year hired a Fox News reporter who had been aggressively wrong about the Benghazi story for three straight years, it was not a good sign. It's distressing when a mainstream media outlet is so anxious to make nice with conservatives that they hire someone like Catherine Herridge, whose career is filled with misinformation work. But that's what CBS did, despite the reporter's long and shameful history of acting more as a Republican partisan than a straight news reporter.
At Fox News, Herridge peddled whatever Republicans on the Hill were pushing Hillary Clinton's email server was hacked by a crime syndicate! President Barack Obama was MIA the night of the Benghazi attack! She basically ran an ongoing misinformation campaign on behalf of the GOP. (Her Twitter feed still serves as one.)
Herridge has emerged in recent days as a media point person as the White House tries frantically to smear former President Barack Obama with the hollow claims of a "Obamagate" scandal.
Herridge recently treated Attorney General Bill Barr to a softball interview after he stunned the legal community when the Department of Justice dropped its charges against Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn. He had already pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in 2017 about his contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign. Then Herridge was handed a Republicans "scoop," which peddled the absurd claim that Obama and Vice President Biden were part of this vast, left-wing, Deep State conspiracy to ensnare the Trump presidency.
Last week, a staffer on Biden's campaign called Herridge a "right-wing hack. Hes not the only one taking note recently. "Democrats on Capitol Hill have grown particularly irked by [Herridge's] work, believing shes become a de facto clearing house for conservative conspiracy theorists who want to give their material the veneer of mainstream objectivity," the Daily Beast reported. Some CBS staffers are becoming increasingly concerned. "Personally I and a few of my other colleagues are really frustrated because we thought she wanted to come to CBS to do real news, not just GOP talking points, but shes just doing more of the same stuff, a network source told the Daily Beast.
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uponit7771
(90,348 posts)oasis
(49,396 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)The only good thing about this is that hardly anyone watches them anymore, and hiring this nutbag isn't going to help that.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)of "big media" in general are willing to hang onto those Trump-derived ratings like grim death, and will do everything in their power to maintain the "horse race" state of the general election, no matter how bad things get or how many people willingly appear to turn against him.
aggiesal
(8,921 posts)There is no reason why the polls should even be this close.
It should just be the diehards against everyone else.
5 point ByeDon lead should be more like 65% to 35%.
Maybe referring them as the Nixon/Trump administration
could switch those 12%-13% people ready to vote for Pendejo45
to ByeDon's side.
dalton99a
(81,565 posts)Cha
(297,473 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,389 posts)and
Les Moonves languishes in mansions while granddaughter lives in roach-infested apartment
Moonves just got caught. There is very little difference in any of the networks now -- from owners to content.
Cha
(297,473 posts)So incredibly sad about the US media's willing to promote Endless Bullshit.
Hestia
(3,818 posts)The rest is feel good stories by Steve Hartman, which is all fine and good if there is absolutely nothing else to report. His stories supersede all that. There is no time left for some actual news.
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)kacekwl
(7,020 posts)it's impossible to wash off. Just like trump stink.
Chakaconcarne
(2,460 posts)calimary
(81,414 posts)CBS News: 524 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019; 1-212-975-4321.
oasis
(49,396 posts)Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)on FAUX News.
struggle4progress
(118,320 posts)Texin
(2,596 posts)CBS was long-tagged as liberal, and it's true they did skew a little left of center -- but that was back in the days of Rather and Cronkite. They are all owned by vast right-wing corporations now and those execs push hard to get out corporate propaganda even if it means pushing what a fascist whack brained idiot wants to spew.
Lonestarblue
(10,038 posts)Conservatives, knowing they had Fox News and hate radio sewed up, started the liberal media propaganda campaign to discredit legitimate facts. Thus, any negative coverage of their actions could just be dismissed as liberal bias. We would do well to remember that the news business is run by corporate heads who are more interested in profits than in presenting fair and accurate news stories. I suspect many of the CEOs are Trump supporters, except maybe Bezos. Hard to with him since Trump has gone after him personally. Business leaders tend to lean Republican because they do not want to pay taxes. They have no interest in supporting Democrats because their taxes will likely increase.
The question I have is whether they believe Trump and Republicans are destroying the country or whether they even care. I suspect not.
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,019 posts)aggiesal
(8,921 posts)you'll only propagate what they want, which is to spread the word wide & far
and create a "But her emails ..." justification.
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)Obamagate is not going to magically disappear because we simply choose to ignore it. The cultists are going to believe what they want to believe, no matter what the easily provable facts may be. So, why even waste time on them with actual, easily provable facts? I say, lampoon it to the point where few will dare to talk about it like it's something real.
aggiesal
(8,921 posts)and those politically lazy voters, and they are the majority, are not going to see the lampooning anyway, but they'll remember the word.
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)Like I've already written, "Obamagate is not going to magically disappear because we simply choose to ignore it ..."
aggiesal
(8,921 posts)You chose to propagate, I choose to limit.
Lets hope, which one is implemented, works.
bucolic_frolic
(43,249 posts)I understand fresh ideas create vibrancy, ratings, growth. It was the basis of the Enlightenment. Nazism is not a fresh idea that anyone would want to espouse.
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)Not ever going to watch CBS again till they get rid of that nutter.