Before becoming president, Trump sued CBS over 60 Minutes’ interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris shortly before the election. Now, Trump’s newly elevated Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, is using the levers of government to put pressure on the network.
“Now, more than ever, only a fearless press stands between an aggressive [White House] and the public,” former CBS News correspondent Marvin Kalb posted on a Facebook page for CBS alumni. “If news organizations such as CBS bend a knee before a president, then we have all taken a big step towards autocracy.”
We need to be against awfulness on every front, but remember, technology is vastly different now then in the 40’s and can connect us all to fantastic effect. The big news stations who bow to nazis may find they don’t survive in the era that comes after their inevitable fall.