Anna Gomez:
A few things trouble me.
One, first of all, is the fact that the FCC revived a complaint against CBS because of the “60 Minutes” segment. And it did so after the expert staff had found that there was, in fact, no basis in the facts or the law for a complaint against CBS.
Just to remind you, of course, this involved an interview with Kamala Harris in which CBS showed a different clip of her answer in one program and another clip in a different program. And this somehow blew up into news distortion. All they did was cut her answer for brevity, basically.
And that is very standard, as you know, in the news business. So just reviving this complaint was a pressure campaign against CBS. And then that became the basis of this lawsuit that Trump had against CBS. And so what you saw was this pressure campaign that led to concessions.
And that concession of the media monitor is really serious, because what they’re saying is that they are going to self-censor basically for ideological purity according to what this administration likes and to report only in the way this administration likes. Apparently, bias is anything this administration doesn’t like. And that is what they’re promising not to show anymore to their consumers.
