CBS News, Ron DeSantis, and The Continuing Self-Destruction Of America’s Corporate Media
The lies and deceit that America’s Corporate Mainstream Media is partaking in have very little to do with journalism and reporting and EVERYTHING to do with pushing propaganda meant to appease their leftist overlords and punish all opposition. It’s true, and this will eventually spell the end of our mainstream media, which we’re all watching die a very slow death. This is something that I don’t admit to very often, but I’m the not-so-proud owner of a Master’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Columbia University. Journalism is a profession I once believed in, and I do think that, in some ways, it truly is a noble one. But there is nothing noble about what woke culture and the endless hunt for social media clickbait has turned our media industry into.
Case in point, the CBS/60 Minutes hit piece on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. You’ve probably heard all about this by now, the CBS News division’s thirst to prove that DeSantis had participated in some sort of pay-to-play scheme that gave the Florida grocery/pharmacy chain Publix the exclusive right to distribute COVID-19 vaccines for the whopping price of a $100K donation to the Governor’s “Friends of Ron DeSantis” Political Action Committee. CBS News was so set on this narrative that, in fact, they ignored a denial from the left-leaning director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, Jared Moskowitz, that Moskowitz tweeted out a full month before the report aired. Moskowitz tweeted out ANOTHER denial of the story once the disastrous 60 Minutes hit piece aired for good measure.
But that didn’t stop the intrepid journalists at 60 Minutes, who couldn’t be deterred from airing their big scoop by silly nuisances like facts. The selective editing of the exchange between DeSantis and CBS News correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is so egregious, the Florida Governor is hinting at taking action against the “news” network. This is only the most recent example of the corporate Mainstream Media’s malfeasance and – trust me – there are many, MANY more that don’t get this level of attention.
Remember the New York Times correction of their initial report that Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick was bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher during the January 6th riot? Or perhaps the Washington Post’s correction of their whopper that former President Trump pressured Georgia’s lead elections investigator to “find the fraud” in the wake of the disastrous 2020 election? It turns out, the Post FABRICATED THE QUOTE. Amazing!
Even one of these “missteps” would be enough to destroy the trust in any of these institutions. Still, they just soldier on, almost all the time never apologizing and never publicizing the corrections. The Media certainly never informs its army of insatiably angry Twitter mobs that – in fact – the story that gave them the shot of much-needed outrage for the day was inherently false. This is all happening so quickly and with such frequency that it’s no surprise that only 9% of all Americans have “a great deal” of trust in the media, and a full 33% has no trust in it at all.
What we’re witnessing is the complete implosion of the media and of America’s trust within it, and this all couldn’t come soon enough. Call it a social media disruption. In the days before social media and all the information we now take for granted, only a few legacy outlets had the power to shape and form public perception as they saw fit. The revolving door between those who worked for leftist administrations and their entry into positions of influence and power within legacy media outlets was noticed only by those close to the industry whose job was to know these things. Now, that has all been blown to bits. The wizards behind the curtain have been exposed over and over and over again, and instead of apologizing and attempting to do better as those with a shred of integrity and dignity will do, they just lay low and back off until they can push their next Big Lie.
Their lies divide the country. Their lies are destructive and damaging to how we as Americans see each other and the trust we have in our leaders to do the right thing. In the rush for the next dopamine hit of social media retweets or a “media cycle” or to damage a promising Republican political contender, the corporate mainstream media is destroying itself from the inside out. Nobody believes it. Even fewer are paying attention. And the media finds itself vastly out of step with a population that is simply tuning out of their lies…if they even bothered to tune in in the first place.
