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The Bleeding Won't Stop at CBS News As Yet Another Top Exec Sprints for the Exits
Red State ^ | May 19, 2025 | Bob Hoge

Posted on 05/19/2025 12:37:49 PM PDT by george76

It can't be much fun working at CBS News these days, as their overwhelming liberal bias keeps getting exposed in embarrassing ways and they keep having to pay the price. Already, "60 Minutes" veteran producer Bill Owens resigned in a huff in April, and they’re in settlement talks with Donald Trump over their deceptive editing of a Kamala Harris interview just before the November presidential election.

The latest casualty is the outlet’s News President Wendy McMahon, who shocked staffers Monday when she announced she too is jumping ship..

Ms. McMahon, whose full title was president of CBS News and Stations, said in a memo that “it’s become clear the company and I do not agree on the path forward.”

Tensions between Ms. McMahon and CBS’s parent company, Paramount, have simmered for months, a period that Ms. McMahon described in her memo as “challenging.”

It must be very “challenging” indeed when the corporate bosses demand that you stop misleading the public all the time.

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CBS News Chief has RESIGNED amid President Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit

The fake news is crumbling before our eyes 🔥

Trump sued CBS after they deceptively edited a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris

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the network has a long history of extreme bias, but things really came to a head after the Kamala interview disaster:

CBS News has a history of dishonest reporting, and Donald Trump called them out on it. He sued the outlet for $10 billion (later raised to 20) over their deceptive edits of an interview with Kamala Harris before the ’24 presidential election. In one version, she rambled on in one of her typical word salads, but in another, they spliced clips together to make her sound coherent and intelligent. Since we know she is neither, it was a clearly cynical effort to affect the minds of voters.

Now it’s time to pay up.

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another one bites the dust at CBS News. They thoroughly earned this ongoing humiliation, however, so I shed not a single tear for them.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; cbs; cbsnews; mcmahon; news; seebs; wendymcmahon

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1 posted on 05/19/2025 12:37:49 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

She got to “leave” rather than being fired.


2 posted on 05/19/2025 12:39:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: george76

That network needs to do Bud Lite commercials. The money would start pouring in.


3 posted on 05/19/2025 12:41:11 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: george76

A $20 Billion lawsuit can ruin your entire day.


4 posted on 05/19/2025 12:41:12 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: george76

The FBI can still go after them for participation in collusion hoax, COVID hoax and so many more. They can run, but they can’t hide.


5 posted on 05/19/2025 12:42:00 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: george76

So she being a complete democrat plant refused to even tone it down a bit while they were being sued...says more about her...


6 posted on 05/19/2025 12:48:25 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: george76
From the article: CBS News has a history of dishonest reporting...

Dan Rather has entered the chat.

7 posted on 05/19/2025 12:48:54 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: george76

The leftist political activism is costing the parent company serious dollars, so much so that it finally got their attention now that they want to sell.


8 posted on 05/19/2025 12:50:54 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: george76

Ever since Walter Cronkite lied about Tet in 1968.


9 posted on 05/19/2025 12:51:19 PM PDT by abb
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To: T.B. Yoits
Buckhead has entered the chat.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts

10 posted on 05/19/2025 12:52:50 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: george76
… “it’s become clear the company and I do not agree on the path forward.”

It’s clear that the company thought it was the one who should be deciding on the “path forward.”

11 posted on 05/19/2025 12:59:00 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: abb

Cronkite was a traitor to America / a hero to the Marxists


12 posted on 05/19/2025 1:00:29 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: abb

Good afternoon Walter its been a while :-)

Hope things have been well for you.

This fake journalism goes back way further than Tet. This whole idea of promoting leftism while using a mask of objectivity to bolster progressive viewpoints was pioneered by Walter Lippmann. He wrote one of the main blueprints for it in 1922 with his work “Public Opinion”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book)

From the effects of only certain information on people, to stereotypes and more, this book is the tell-all.

https://librivox.org/public-opinion-by-walter-lippmann/


13 posted on 05/19/2025 1:13:53 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: george76; Liz; GOPJ; Navy Patriot; nopardons
It warms my heart that the Fake News ship Dan Rather and 60 Minutes built is sinking and will soon find its eternal resting place in Davy Jones' Locker.

Sure, the new owners may keep up the façade of CBS News alive, but it will soon become the Newsweak of the former mainstream TV networks.

We shouldn't be surprised.  The steady advance of social media doomed Fake News.  The Left-leaning types who once watched CBS News and MSNBC have migrated to Instagram, a great echo chamber where you can instantly find stories and videos that appeal to your political taste. 

And you can be sure that Orwell's Facebook is selling your personal preferences in return for directing your own personal puppet show.  OBEY!

What makes FR great is you gain "cred" by your ability to reason and cut to the chase on issues of the day.  A FReeper stands on his or her own two feet because the history of your comments is public.

And there's always a Humble Gunner or two ready to debate you when your reasoning powers fail to cut the mustard. 

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14 posted on 05/19/2025 2:41:59 PM PDT by poconopundit (Kash Patel, his portrait's in Webster's next to the word "gangbusters". Go Kash go! Love ya man!)
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To: george76

CBS bias goes back to the commie propagandist Walter Cronkite who lied outright about the 1968 Try offensive. The VC and NVA had been decimated during the failed offensive. Ho Chi Minh and General Giap were discussing how to get favorable peace terms. They watched Cronkite tell the world that the offensive was proof that the US couldn’t win. Ho knew then and there that eventually the US press and the Democrats would give him the win. The Democrats in 1975 refused to support the South and it was over. Cronkite and CBS were/are evil lying commie filth.


15 posted on 05/19/2025 2:50:11 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

Tet Offensive. Effing autocorrect


16 posted on 05/19/2025 2:51:00 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: george76

Remember that bailot softball “ interview” with the Clintons when Bill was in hot water over his numerous affairs


17 posted on 05/19/2025 3:05:03 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (What does the Deep State have on Dims and RINOs? Demand release of all tax returns)
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To: george76; Buckhead
Classic FAFO. They had gotten away with splice-and-dice for years, but they never imagined pimping MattressBack would result in finally bringing down CBS and 60 Minutes.

It is absolutely equivalent to THIS SITE bringing down Dan Rather and LEGACY MEDIA for all time.

We harpooned the whale in 2004; 21 years later, the whale resigned before she could be harpooned. #TOTALWINNING #BUCKHEADRULES

18 posted on 05/19/2025 3:21:32 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: Seruzawa
Kronkkite was ruined by visiting the kampfs and first wondering how the Germans didn't know, and then wondering how the Americans didn't know, and then finding out the Germans knew, and the Americans suspected.

What he skipped over was that the US made this knowledge part of their best effort to end the war asap while in reality, at that point, unfortunately the Communists were calling the shots (thanks you decrepit pos pre-Biden FDR-at-Malta), after the Soviets had 'liberated' Majdanek summer of '44.

Stalin didn't give a rat's ass, he had bigger prison kampfs at home! LOFL!

BTW Peacenik Walter fired on German fighters as part of the Writing 69th.

Then Kronkkite went to Vietnam and was determined to stop it, even if it aligned him with the Communists.

There is a well-known CBS anchor still with us who 'disagreed' with Kronkkite but could not dissuade him, as CBS News president was Richard Salant, Kronkkite's main supporter who was conveniently also a hardcore Leftist, really the first McGovernick -- and that's how Rather got into Vietnam as well.

19 posted on 05/19/2025 3:46:07 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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