Tim Graham writes for Townhall.com about the clear partisan leanings of CBS News’ flagship program.
CBS News thinks the crown jewel of its news division is “60 Minutes,” the alleged gold standard of investigative journalism on television. But when it comes to politics, their coverage isn’t just slanted. It’s more like a wrecked bus laying on its side, wheels spinning in the air.
Their stilted editing of a Kamala Harris interview weeks before the election caused Donald Trump to sue last year over the potential harm to his candidacy. By that standard, Trump could sue lots of newscasters and documentarians who slice and dice presidential contenders to try and persuade voters.
The Wall Street Journal reported the owners of CBS at Paramount Global in recent days offered $15 million to settle the suit, but Team Trump wants more than $25 million and is also seeking an apology from CBS News. …
… In the midst of this lawsuit, the partisans of “60 Minutes” have gone on an anti-conservative tear this year:
On Feb. 16, mere days after Vice President JD Vance went into the Munich Security Conference and denounced European censorship regimes, Sharyn Alfonsi produced a report bizarrely extolling the virtues of German censorship.
On the same show, Scott Pelley aired a self-righteous attack on Trump and Elon Musk upending the U.S. Agency for International Development. “It’s too soon to tell how serious President Trump is in defiance of the Constitution,” he lectured.
On Feb. 23, Bill Whitaker puffed up leftist comedian John Oliver, who raged that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is being bribed by his friends when they have taken him on vacations: “I can prove that to you by offering this guy a million dollars a year to get the (bleep) off the Supreme Court. That should be a crime.”
On April 27, Pelley closed the program with an impassioned editorial defending his boss Bill Evans, who resigned because according to Pelley, in the midst of the Trump lawsuit, “Bill felt he lost the independence that honest journalism requires.”
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