If CBS is truly intransigent on this point, Walz should use it as an opportunity to absolutely eviscerate the moderators and CBS in general for not doing their jobs. Because fact checking lies in debates is very much their job, and they’d be demonstrably negligent in their public duty as journalists if they refuse to do so.

Media critics have accused them [CBS] of cowing to MAGA Republicans.

And those critics are entirely correct. This is a spineless, utterly irresponsible decision.

As Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein wrote in 2019, “Journalists can’t just dispassionately chronicle two equally valid ‘sides.’ A free press needs (and is needed by) lowercase-d democracy. We can’t exist without it.”

I agree completely, and CBS is failing the public.

Are Colbert and Tomlinson going to bite the hand that feeds them? Let’s hope so.

It makes sense once you consider Paramount is in limbo until a merger with Skydance, run by David Ellison, the son of right-wing billionaire Larry Ellison.

David Ellison may be more liberal and has apparently donated to democratic candidates more often than republicans. But you can imagine the direction coming down from high-up CBS positions to not engage in anything that may look partisan.

it’s just a shame that the right has convinced anyone that “verifiable reality” is partisan.

🎵They’re eating the dogs

They’re eating the cats

They’re eating the pets of the people who live there🎵

CBS: “Yup”

cowards

…and now the strategy behind the couch rumors becomes clear.

You know how everyone loses their god damned minds over seeing a commercial or a news site with an ad or, Erastil forbid, a paywall?

fascists don’t throw a pissy fit when that happens. Which is why news media outlets are, at best, trying to not alienate them.

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