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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCBS News giving Mick Mulvaney a paid contributor gig is an act of journalistic malpractice
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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-03-29/op-ed-bardella-mulvaney-cbs
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https://archive.ph/TeBYc
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Its as if the power-that-be at the network learned nothing from a tumultuous presidency that culminated with insurrectionists attacking the U.S. Capitol. The very people who rode shotgun in the effort to dismantle democracy are being rewarded with book deals, guest-host roles on TV shows and more. Lets be clear: Democracy doesnt die in darkness, it dies because of stuff like this.
Many White House officials, Republican and Democratic, have gone on to significant roles at mainstream media outlets after leaving their government positions. But Mulvaney stands out for the wrong reasons. He acted as an architect of democracys demise, and he should not be legitimized by being affiliated with a major news network. Neither should anyone else who committed treason behind government doors.
Exposing the American people to such pathological liars and despots is an act of journalistic malpractice. What allowed Trumpism to rise in the first place was the medias misguided notion that both sides deserve equal airing and footing even when one side is flagrantly violating the law and lying.
CBS decision is even more disappointing when you consider the state of global affairs and the role that Mulvaney played in shaping them. As the Washington Post reported in the fall of 2019, President Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate the son of former vice president Joe Biden, according to three senior administration officials.
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Skittles
(152,967 posts)Carlitos Brigante
(26,483 posts)barbaraann
(9,089 posts)onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)Just putting people in place for you know.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,652 posts)The side is the show.
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uponit7771
(90,225 posts)dchill
(38,324 posts)Iggo
(47,489 posts)not fooled
(5,791 posts)[link:https://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/9/it_might_not_be_good_for|]
Boomerproud
(7,890 posts)I'm sure Dan Rather is hurting too.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)They are already a "corporate news creature." This pollutes their "product" below the level of "acceptable."
Shame on them.
Botany
(70,294 posts)Eric Sevareid along with Mike Wallace, Uncle Walter, and Ed Morrow have to spinning in their graves.
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librechik
(30,663 posts)I was thinking, Cool, John got the first network tv comedy assignment. Well deserved, too long ij coming, and hope he survives!
THAT Mulvaney should be on the Masked Singer, Russian version. Nothing else.
CBS is the worst of the three in veiled support for the "vast right wing conspiracy." That exists, and this is why. Both sides are right? NOT!!
Report THAT, CBS.
dlk
(11,439 posts)Moonves wasnt the Lone Ranger at CBS. Theres a reason I never watch that station.