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From: Henry Bodkin <X@Y.com>
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Subject: What Is Christian Science News Hiding?
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 03:03:03 -0000 (UTC)
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>As we recently outlined, it has been a damaging, credibility-harming few 
>weeks for CBS News.  The network violated its own debate rules with a 
>disputed-to-misleading 'fact check' of JD Vance at the Vice Presidential 
>debate, then cut off his microphone as he calmly picked apart their 
>assertion.  Their morning show was thrown into chaos when some employees 
>melted down over an anchor asking pointed, tough questions of an anti-
>Israel zealot, resulting in angry recriminations, tears, and a series of 
>embarrassing leaks.  Then there was the curious 60 Minutes edit of Kamala 
>Harris' answer regarding US-Israeli relations, which looked completely 
>different in a teaser clip, compared to what aired on the broadcast 
>itself.  As a refresher, here's the side-by-side juxtaposition:
>
>What 60 Minutes viewers saw was more succinct and far less rambling and 
>vacuous than the answer that was released ahead of the broadcast.  It is 
>true that news organizations will sometimes cut down longer answers due to 
>time constraints. But snipping out her word salad, which had been 
>ridiculed online, was a suspicious choice to some people.  The best way to 
>examine and determine whether the second, 'for-air' CBS edit was 
>journalistically defensible is to look at the full exchange, then consider 
>how the program cut it down.  If the full video isn't forthcoming, for 
>whatever reason, then the unedited and un-redacted transcript would 
>suffice.  But for reasons that are inexplicable to me, 60 Minutes has been 
>withholding the transcript for more than two weeks.  As former CBS 
>correspondent Catherine Herridge keeps pointing out, publishing entire 
>transcripts of major or significant interviews has been a common practice, 
>including in her own experience:
>
>Releasing the full unedited transcript is consistent with journalistic 
>transparency and it stands behind the integrity of the entire Kamala 
>Harris edit, not just the clips under scrutiny. CBS has the ability to 
>immediately settle these questions and address merits of FCC complaint 
>alleging “news distortion.” There is ample precedent at CBS News for 
>releasing full, unedited transcripts. 2019 interview, Attorney General 
>Bill Barr [with Jan Crawford].  2020 interview, President Trump [with 
>Herridge].  60 Minutes released its full interview transcript with Fed 
>Chair Jerome Powell.
>
>Recommended
>
>Is This the Anti-Trump Story Getting Shopped Around? It's Laughably False.
>Matt Vespa
>On Sunday, the program released a statement addressing the controversy.  
>Remaining silent would have been better than this deeper-hole-digging 
>exercise, in my view:
>
>Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing 
>of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false. 
>60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a 
>longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes. Same question. Same 
>answer. But a different portion of the response. When we edit any 
>interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to 
>be clear, accurate and on point. The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes 
>was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 
>21-minute-long segment. Remember, Mr. Trump pulled out of his interview 
>with 60 Minutes and the vice president participated. Our long-standing 
>invitation to former President Trump remains open. If he would like to 
>discuss the issues facing the nation and the Harris interview, we would be 
>happy to have him on 60 Minutes.
>
>They are pushing back against accusations from Trump, which are fueled by 
>their own opacity. If their edits are ethical and representative, 
>transparency would vindicate them and put and end to all of this. Their 
>continued refusal to just show America the complete transcript is 
>suspicious. They only aired a fraction of what was reportedly a 45-minute 
>interview. It would be a massive scandal if 60 Minutes were hiding 
>something, in order to help their preferred candidate. I'm not alleging 
>that's what is happening here, but as I said on Fox, the longer they play 
>these games and decline to clear things up by publishing the video or 
>transcript, the worse it looks for them: 
>
>There is no acceptable rationale against letting the public at least read 
>the full interview between a CBS News journalist and one of the two people 
>who will be the next President of the United States. By the way, here's a 
>reminder of why Trump eschewed tradition and nixed his 60 Minutes sit-
>down:
>
>During the interview [with Trump] — which aired on Oct. 25, the week 
>before the 2020 election, and garnered nearly 17 million views — longtime 
>anchor [Leslie Stahl] flat-out denied that the Biden family was under any 
>sort of scandal at all. The interview was so combative that the Trump 
>campaign released the full raw footage before network publication. “He’s 
>in the midst of a scandal,” Trump said in reference to emails from the 
>laptop revealing Joe Biden was lying about involvement with Hunter’s 
>overseas business ventures. “He’s not,” Stahl said, interrupting the 
>president to outright dismiss the criticism. “He’s not, no.” Stahl went on 
>to deny that then-Vice President Joe Biden spied on the Trump campaign in 
>2016, and claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop couldn’t be verified.
>
>I think it would have still been a good idea for Trump to have done the 
>CBS interview, but it's clear that he felt like 60 Minutes had wrongly put 
>its finger on the 'misinformation' scale in helping to cover up the Hunter 
>Biden laptop saga. The supression of that accurate prior to a major 
>election was disgraceful, and involved a shocking array of collusion. 
>Whether or not Trump just wanted an excuse to bypass 60 Minutes, it's not 
>unreasonable for someone to demand some measure of accountability for how 
>the Big Tech/'news' alliance handled that situation.  Why reward outlets 
>that haven't earned trust?  I'll leave you with another news 
>organization's attempt to 'fact check' Donald Trump's trolling over 
>whether Kamala Harris ever worked at McDonald's:
>
>I have no idea what's true about Harris' employment history with the fast 
>food giant, but it does seem odd that there's no proof of it whatsoever 
>beyond the say so of her campaign and some vague recollections of one 
>friend.  It's also strange that she apparently never mentioned this 
>relatable biographical detail in her public life or political career 
>before she started running for president in 2019.  Regardless, Trump's 
>stint at the Golden Arches over the weekend was a political masterstroke 
>and a viral sensation that worked on several levels.  Which is the real 
>reason that critics are upset:
>
>UPDATE - CBS continues to cover itself in glory, on multiple fronts:
>
>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/10/23/what-is-cbs-news-
>hiding-n2646523
>

Everybody knows that Trump is too frail and will not live to 80.

Don't vote for a dying man.

The rightist lie factories will be burned to the ground with their 
occupants, any Russians in Europe or the USA will be executed.