• magnetosphere@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    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.

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      1 month ago

      Democracy doesn’t need a lower case d, nor does republicanism, only calling yourself a radical republican, but that’s modern journalism for you.