CBS fired Catherine Herridge, their best investigative journalist. What did she do? Her job, that’s all and CBS locked her out of her office and confiscated her computers. Is this interview debacle a surprise? Of course not… the fact that people actually continue to support state funded media is astounding.
This is beyond disappointing. The questions asked by Tony are the very same ones anyone reading the book should be asking! When everything is viewed through the lens of race instead of truth it undermines any progress we may want to make or think we are making with DEI objectives. Coates is a celebrated and talented author. His bias was on display and questioned. His race was not the issue. There is a palpable move toward antisemitism that is both ignorant and disturbing. "Never Again" is creeping up on us again, all under the watchful gaze of people who believe they are somehow "woke".
Today, the state of journalism – – my chosen profession – – is an embarrassment. If it isn’t a biased Reporter or Anchor it is their boss telling them to back off doing what they should be doing — asking the tough questions. I used to work for WCBS in New York and many other radio and television networks/properties. My husband was an anchorman at Various CBS radio properties (Including the network) for nearly 40 years. Today we hesitate to openly reveal ourselves as journalists to strangers. I’m usually met with a fowl sneer. Dear colleagues, we’ve done it to ourselves - our collective reputation now ranks down there with used car salesmen and politicians
We should allow media journalists to hold interview subjects to account. This was very much the case at network news once, but the backbone for doing it amongst CBS executives has long since been dissolved in the 21st century. Instead, CBS seems more eager to please its parent company (the beleaguered Paramount Global) and remain in its good graces than it wishes to serve its audience, even for a moment.
I have heard him interviewed on MSNBC by several hosts, none of whom pushed back by talking about the context of forces arrayed against Israel from the beginning. I was moved by his stories of being stopped by an IDF soldier and questioned about his religion before being allowed to shop on a particular street in the West Bank. When West Bank settlers and Palestinians clash, the Israelis are tried in civil courts while Palestinians are tried in military courts. It is an important journalistic function for Coates to report what he observed personally and it is an important journalistic function for the CBS anchor to question him. I am disappointed in CBS for their cowards response. I don't watch CBS. This may be why in part, a sense that they don't really want to create waves and change with their news. Not a Murrow or other journalistic giant walks among them. CBS used to be the model of a powerful mooral independent journalism source. No more.
“It’s complicated,” he said, “when you want to take something from somebody.”
That’s an interesting argument from a guy who’s trying to force American taxpayers who had nothing to do with slavery to pay billions of dollars in “reparations” to people who were never slaves, just based on their skin color.
Perhaps we should let CBS be more clear about its purpose and change to GBS (Goebbels Broadcasting System) as they are more interested in a narrative/propaganda vs news/truth
It’s analogous to this: An author is stung by the mosquito of the free press, such as it is these days, as opposed to the fearless hornet it used to be. And what does the overpaid CBS executive brain trust do? They call in the Mayo Clinic to administer first aid to the author and their staff on behalf of a minority of their demographic. For a mosquito bite no less!
Yet another example of left-wing anti-semitism. In this case, an act of journalism that would be considered normal in any other circumstance becomes a trauma-inducing meltdown for a news organization(!), because the subject is Israel. Compound that with the interviewee being a saint among progressive puritans and you've got all the ingredients for a moral panic at CBS (again, it's supposed to be a news organization!). Turns out we're not so far from 2020 are we?
Since many journalists are now becoming politicians in the main stream media. Check out Salemnews .We try our very best to not sugarcoat anything with politics but to just report what the world needs to know
I noticed Coleman Hughes mentioned Coates named his son Samori after Samori Ture, a Muslim cleric who resisted French colonial rule in West Africa from 1882 until his capture in 1898. That’s the brief summary you get from woke history. Ten minutes of research shows the rape, murder, selling captured enemies (African) into slavery, expected for people in that time and region. The hypocrisy is insane.
CBS fired Catherine Herridge, their best investigative journalist. What did she do? Her job, that’s all and CBS locked her out of her office and confiscated her computers. Is this interview debacle a surprise? Of course not… the fact that people actually continue to support state funded media is astounding.
This is beyond disappointing. The questions asked by Tony are the very same ones anyone reading the book should be asking! When everything is viewed through the lens of race instead of truth it undermines any progress we may want to make or think we are making with DEI objectives. Coates is a celebrated and talented author. His bias was on display and questioned. His race was not the issue. There is a palpable move toward antisemitism that is both ignorant and disturbing. "Never Again" is creeping up on us again, all under the watchful gaze of people who believe they are somehow "woke".
Today, the state of journalism – – my chosen profession – – is an embarrassment. If it isn’t a biased Reporter or Anchor it is their boss telling them to back off doing what they should be doing — asking the tough questions. I used to work for WCBS in New York and many other radio and television networks/properties. My husband was an anchorman at Various CBS radio properties (Including the network) for nearly 40 years. Today we hesitate to openly reveal ourselves as journalists to strangers. I’m usually met with a fowl sneer. Dear colleagues, we’ve done it to ourselves - our collective reputation now ranks down there with used car salesmen and politicians
I long for the days when no-nonsense, investigative reporters like you were the norm, not the all-too-rare exception.
You make me weepy for the good old days when we held public officials to account.
We should allow media journalists to hold interview subjects to account. This was very much the case at network news once, but the backbone for doing it amongst CBS executives has long since been dissolved in the 21st century. Instead, CBS seems more eager to please its parent company (the beleaguered Paramount Global) and remain in its good graces than it wishes to serve its audience, even for a moment.
I have heard him interviewed on MSNBC by several hosts, none of whom pushed back by talking about the context of forces arrayed against Israel from the beginning. I was moved by his stories of being stopped by an IDF soldier and questioned about his religion before being allowed to shop on a particular street in the West Bank. When West Bank settlers and Palestinians clash, the Israelis are tried in civil courts while Palestinians are tried in military courts. It is an important journalistic function for Coates to report what he observed personally and it is an important journalistic function for the CBS anchor to question him. I am disappointed in CBS for their cowards response. I don't watch CBS. This may be why in part, a sense that they don't really want to create waves and change with their news. Not a Murrow or other journalistic giant walks among them. CBS used to be the model of a powerful mooral independent journalism source. No more.
Coates did not answer any of the questions. That’s a story too.
“It’s complicated,” he said, “when you want to take something from somebody.”
That’s an interesting argument from a guy who’s trying to force American taxpayers who had nothing to do with slavery to pay billions of dollars in “reparations” to people who were never slaves, just based on their skin color.
I’ve always wondered how first generation Nigerian cardiologist, engineers, and attorneys would feel having to pay reparations.
unrelentingly depressing. It's like watching CBS eviscerate themselves. '
Perhaps we should let CBS be more clear about its purpose and change to GBS (Goebbels Broadcasting System) as they are more interested in a narrative/propaganda vs news/truth
But they made him crawl, so all's right with the world again.
It’s analogous to this: An author is stung by the mosquito of the free press, such as it is these days, as opposed to the fearless hornet it used to be. And what does the overpaid CBS executive brain trust do? They call in the Mayo Clinic to administer first aid to the author and their staff on behalf of a minority of their demographic. For a mosquito bite no less!
CBS = Corporate Buffoons System
Yet another example of left-wing anti-semitism. In this case, an act of journalism that would be considered normal in any other circumstance becomes a trauma-inducing meltdown for a news organization(!), because the subject is Israel. Compound that with the interviewee being a saint among progressive puritans and you've got all the ingredients for a moral panic at CBS (again, it's supposed to be a news organization!). Turns out we're not so far from 2020 are we?
Since many journalists are now becoming politicians in the main stream media. Check out Salemnews .We try our very best to not sugarcoat anything with politics but to just report what the world needs to know
I noticed Coleman Hughes mentioned Coates named his son Samori after Samori Ture, a Muslim cleric who resisted French colonial rule in West Africa from 1882 until his capture in 1898. That’s the brief summary you get from woke history. Ten minutes of research shows the rape, murder, selling captured enemies (African) into slavery, expected for people in that time and region. The hypocrisy is insane.
Trump backed out of the CBS 60 minutes interview when he found out Tony was going to be conducting it. Someone give that man a Collier Award already!
Apparently there are a lot of very sensitive flowers working at CBS. Maybe they should go live in Israel for a few years.