As we have just reached the halfway point on the calendar, we see that the tough year for our nation’s media complex continues. The fact that the journalism industry is feeling compelled to issue official statements in defense of their reporting highlights a new level of debasement for the profession.
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An action that previously had been relatively rare has sprung up with regularity over the past weeks, and it indicates the growing condition of fractured examples of journalism. When the news broke last week that Paramount Global reached a settlement with President Trump over his lawsuit with CBS News over its corrupted editing found with their pre-election interview, CBS News saw fit to issue a statement with a dose of obstinate PR clarifying that they were in no way apologizing.
The production has been exposed, mainly through the show officers refusing to release the transcript of the interview