Jerusalem Not In Israel?

[Steve R.]

CBS News allegedly tells staffers not to report that Jerusalem is part of Israel because of ‘disputed’ status

An internal memo was reportedly sent to staffers instructing them not to refer to Jerusalem as being in Israel.

nypost.com

But instead of instructing reporters not to refer to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Memmott’s memo told journalists not to acknowledge that Jerusalem is located in Israel at all.

While this is only one article, it quite troubling on various levels.

• Antisemitism is more endemic that you think as it has infected what was once a legitimate news organization.
• Democrats claim with great sanctimony that they are on a holy crusade to (falsely) end disinformation. Yet here the Democrats are spreading it. Hypocrites. Manipulating "facts" to promote a political goal is very Orwellian of the Democrats.
• CBS News has joined other news outlets in acting as a propaganda arm of the Democratic party.
• The public is gullible. Democrats contend that Biden won the 2020 election, however this article plus numerous others spewing disinformation potentially tricks the unsuspecting to vote Democratic. That constitutes "rigging" and election.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Damn, that means ALL of the writers of geography textbooks will have to hire new cartographers to redraw all those maps.

 

[Steve R.]

Once home to Cronkite and Murrow, CBS News faces integrity crisis amid bias concerns, missteps

A steady run of miscues and clashes in the era of Donald Trump and Middle East war has inflamed distrust to scandalous levels and left a cloud lingering over the entire CBS News franchise.

justthenews.com

The most recent accusations of liberal bias exploded when CBS announced ahead of the vice presidential debate between Republican Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee, that its moderators would not “fact-check” the candidates’ answers. Instead, CBS moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan pulled a fast one, and several times argued with him about assertions. At one point when Vance answered their questions pushing back, they interrupted him and cut his mic off.

In another event, The Free Press reported that a memo from Mark Memmott, the network’s director of standards and practices, told CBS reporters not to refer to Jerusalem as being in Israel, though it is the nation’s capital city and home to the U.S. embassy.

When Whittaker asked about U.S. diplomacy in Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reaction to the Biden administration’s desire to scale down the war against Hamas, Harris responded with: “Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.”

But when the question aired later on "60 Minutes," the response by Harris was different. “We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end,” the presidential nominee said.

In an additional social-media post by Trump, he said: “With me, 60 Minutes does the exact opposite! They take everything I say, realize how totally BRILLIANT it is, and take it out. So, with Kamala they add, with ‘TRUMP’ they delete. Like the Democrat Party, THEY ARE A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!”

Harris full of obfuscating word salad in the above quotes. Bad optics for Trump to call for CBS to lose its broadcasting license.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Bad optics for Trump to call for CBS to lose its broadcasting license.

Actually, it is important that if you are going to call down a news agency that has eschewed news in favor of opinion, you HAVE to hit them in a place that will hurt. However, bad target for a different reason. The CBS network doesn't have a broadcasting license. They ride the individual licenses of their member stations. A network doesn't really need a broadcast license. A station does.

 

[Steve R.]

Actually, it is important that if you are going to call down a news agency that has eschewed news in favor of opinion, you HAVE to hit them in a place that will hurt. However, bad target for a different reason. The CBS network doesn't have a broadcasting license. They ride the individual licenses of their member stations. A network doesn't really need a broadcast license. A station does.

Good points!

 

[Pat Hartman]

I guess if you can change the meaning of words to suit your purposes, you can decide what country a city is in too. Let's bring back 1984 as required reading.