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The Overweening Pomposity of the Old Guard at CBS News

Reporters like Sharon Alfonsi insist that they’re the hard-hitters, and never the soft-ballers. They’re the courageous independents who hold people accountable, and never the shoe-polishing partisans who allow their political allies to uncork ridiculous spins without challenge. They are lying to themselves, and to us.

Alfonsi Bounced from “60 Minutes,” Touts God Complex, Arrogance to NYT

The NY Times made official Wednesday: CECOT-obsessed Sharyn Alfonsi is out at CBS’s 60 Minutes. In an interview with the virulently anti-Bari Weiss paper, Alfonsi donned a holier-than-thou attitude that embodies the stomach-churning arrogance of liberal, elite journalists in fearing the “chilling message” the presence of a hands-on editor-in-chief sends.

NBC Offers Slobbering Profile of Obama

NBC’s Today debased itself on Wednesday by sending former First Daughter and fourth-hour co-host Jenna Bush Hager to interview former President Barack Obama for a syrupy sit-down about the opening of his Obama Presidential Center next month.

The Networks Fall Silent on the Indictment of the SPLC

The Southern Poverty Law Center has long been utilized by the Elitist Media as a go-to when seeking to silence, shun or otherwise castigate conservatives by smearing them as “hate groups.” Perhaps this explains their reluctance to cover the Department of Justice’s indictment of the SPLC on multiple fraud charges.

 

Jim Acosta Whines Trump Is “Winning” His War on the Press

Appearing on the “Power Lines” podcast with his fellow ardent leftists Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino, Acosta glumly proclaimed “I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out that Donald Trump is winning in his, you know, quest to reshape the media in this country that he’s cracked the code on how to hurt the press in the U.S.”

The State of Our Journalism Is Viciously Anti-Trump

The State of the Union speech is an effective annual exercise to measure how journalists feel about a long speech on national TV by Donald Trump. They hate it intensely, like most children hate broccoli. They would like to scrape that steaming plate into the garbage.

ABC Loses It Over Kash Patel in Milan for Hockey

On Monday, ABC’s Good Morning America was surprisingly the only major broadcast network morning newscast to pitch a fit over FBI Director Kash Patel’s attendance at Sunday’s gold medal game in men’s ice hockey. Correspondent Pierre Thomas decried this as “causing controversy” and cited the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping and possible military against Iran was reasons he shouldn’t have gone.

CNN’s Dana Bash Plays Softball with Gavin Newsom

There was no challenge from Bash, and no follow up to her weak initial question other than her evocation of the hardships suffered by Newsom’s mom. Newsom was allowed to rattle off a set piece that, far from addressing Bash’s question, attempted to gaslight viewers into believing that California’s unaffordability is a good thing due to the Democrat trifecta government’s many interventions.