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Reporting on the Mirror – CBS NEWS
There sure is plenty of outrage over professional editing standards!
There is a jolt of excitable furor in the media landscape today, as it has been learned that a story set to have run on “60 Minutes” Sunday has been temporarily pulled by the new head of the news division, Bari Weiss. The piece concerns interviews conducted with some illegal aliens who have been taken in by ICE officials and sent to the high-security prison in El Salvador.
Her explanation is that the segment was not journalistically sufficient and requires more context and words delivered by administration officials. Reporter Sharyn Alfonsi has come out with a scathing email — conveniently shared with others in the press — scorching Weiss over the decision and declaring what is taking place as tantamount to censorship.
In a note we obtained, Alfonsi compares the removal of the segment of to "corporate censorship":
— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) December 22, 2025
"We are trading 50 years of 'Gold Standard' reputation for a single week of political quiet."
A reminder, as she is trumpeting the unimpeachable past of the news program, Alfonsi is the same reporter who delivered the vaccine hit piece on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis that had numerous ethical lapses (from manipulated video, ignoring disqualifying facts, and more), and was so poor in quality that it had been discredited days before the segment ran that Sunday evening.
Both Kinds of Standards – CNN
Of course, Brian defies all of his previous positions on the CBS decision.
In responding to the decision on the “60 Minutes” segment, Brian Stelter has come forward to declare that this makes for a significant hit to the reputation of the program. This…makes no sense, at all.
What is seemingly taking place is getting the piece shored up and more valid before it is put out on the air. This is the very thing Brian loves to tout about his network and others, whenever he is slamming the credibility of Fox News, or other right-leaning news outlets. Stelter brays about the editorial rigor of his network and how many hands a story has to pass through in order to be deemed credible for broadcast.
So why is it that when Bari Weiss employs this technique, she becomes scorched over the decision? And how is it a show takes a hit to its reputation when it is looking to avoid putting out a possibly flawed product?
"60 Minutes" just suffered a severe blow to its credibility. One of its own correspondents fears the program is being "dismantled," and some employees are threatening to quit: https://t.co/wz1Oo0Xr9l
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 22, 2025
Both Kinds of Standards – MS NOW
It takes talent to discredit oneself in a matter of days.
It was just one week ago when we noted how MS NOW law correspondent Lisa Rubin was declaring that a photo of Donald Trump with a passel of females — whose faces were blacked out by congressional Democrats — showed him with either underage girls, or Epstein victims. That the picture of him posing with adults had been taken at a public event for a pageant was already known, but the legal expert was bold with her accusations.
Now that the Epstein Files have been released in all of their redacted glory, there are numerous pictures of Bill Clinton in far more compromising positions, with far more questionable females, in far more dubious locations – yet Rubin suddenly turns professionally skeptical on what these images depict. She sees Clinton “with other people,” she cautiously says “some of them are not known,” and adds that “we have no context from where these images come from.”
Not only is she applying a completely different set of standards, but she also ignores any faces blacked out by the DOJ involves minors or victims.
MSNBC’s Lisa Rubin on Trump/Epstein redacted photos that were debunked: The photos show Trump with what could be "minors and/or survivors."
— Johnny Midnight ⚡️ (@its_The_Dr) December 20, 2025
Rubin on newly released Bill Clinton/Epstein redacted photos: The photos show Clinton with “other people” and lack context.
The White… pic.twitter.com/xqZU45TPg0
Dos Equis-pert Opinion – NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
Expert on numerous topics, master of none?
In an amazingly revealing piece, Max Tani reports that at NPR the editorial mandate has come down that its journalists are to no longer cite a specific professor as a qualified expert source in their reporting.
An internal email mentioned a professor from Richmond, Virginia, was discovered to have been cited over 70 times by the reporters on staff, as it appears he shops his wares out to just about any outlet that will listen. The email mentions he has been cited frequently by other outlets, such as The New York Times, Politico, and Washington Post (“appears to have the professor on speed-dial”). He has also been tabbed to appear on all three major networks, as well as frequently quoted by the Associated Press.
The full email, which is pretty amusing pic.twitter.com/34mMCCD0Gw
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) December 22, 2025
Race to the Bottom – CHICAGO SUN TIMES
Apparently, everyone complaining means that he HAD to join in…
When Notre Dame was left out of the NCAA Football National Championship playoffs, there was no shortage of outrage to be heard. Beyond the Fighting Irish faithful, there was also no shortage of media members weighing in with their insights.
Not to be left behind, Robert Scoop Jackson joined in the fray, and while he resorted to the most base outrage, he did so absent anything involving insight. In trying to assess racism being the motivation, because the team has a black coach in Marcus Freeman, this has to bypass that every team in college football is replete with POC athletes.
Also, one other small detail: This same coach guided this very same team to the college football final just one year ago.
They say Marcus Freeman’s race, Notre Dame's CFP exclusion aren’t connected — yet the situation seems off https://t.co/KLso7KqHhN
— Robert Scoop Jackson (@OGIIISCOOP) December 14, 2025
THAT "BLACK" FEELING. (Some won't understand.)
