That kind of “journalism” really does undermine democracy. Murrow and Cronkite must be spinning in their graves.
Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., left, talks with author Ta-Nehisi Coates, right, as he waits to testify about reparation for the descendants of slaves during a hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 19, 2019.
Recently, CBS, the network of journalistic icons Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, made itself a laughingstock, dragging its profession along with it, reprimanding one of its journalists for having had the nerve to calmly, civilly ask a prominent author a couple of mildly probing questions about the new book he was promoting as part of his national publicity tour.
It emerges that the innocents murdered on 9/11 were not the only ones not human to Coates, because the 1,200 innocents slaughtered by Hamas on Oct. 7 are included among those about whom Coates could not give the proverbial fig. That is certainly the message of Coates’ new book, “The Message,” in which he devotes a special section to the by-now familiar “Israel-as-white-supremacist-colonialist-imperialist-expansionist-genocidal-Satan” refrain, recited by the far left with robotic mindlessness.
Fair questions, even obvious ones. But Lord Coates found it outrageous that he could be asked them, an affront to his stature. Whereupon CBS News President Wendy McMahon announced Dokoupil had violated CBS’ “standards.”
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