More CBS "News:" CBS Executives Killed an Interview With Elon Musk Because They Insisted They Should Be Able to Edit and Hide What He Had to Say

Elon Musk wanted to do the interview live precisely so they couldn't give him an Asshole Edit and hide his actual words to push their previously-decided narrative.

CBS "news" executives said they would never, ever agree to do that. They need to control the narrative.

This comes from former CBS investigative reporter Catherine Herridge, who left the network, presumably over this kind of absolute bias and corruption.

Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal

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🇺🇸 CATHERINE HERRIDGE: CBS WALKED AWAY FROM ELON BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T CONTROL HIM

Catherine revealed CBS passed on what could have been one of the biggest interviews in modern media, not because Elon refused, but because the network did.

She said discussions were underway after her work connected to the Twitter Files, and an opportunity emerged to interview Elon live on his own platform.

That's when everything stalled.

"I went to the CBS executives and I said, this is the opportunity that we have.

He's saying, I want to do it live and on my platform.

He's one of the most influential human beings on the planet.

And the reaction from the executives was, well, we can't do it live.

And I was like, what do you mean we can't do it live?

They said, we don't know what he's going to say.

And I'm thinking, isn't that the point of journalism?

They said it has to be taped.

We have to be able to edit it. It has to be on our platform.

We have to control the platform.

Everything just got shut down.

It was one of the biggest interviews you could ever have.

I felt ashamed. I never went back to Elon to say they want to do it, but only if they can control it.

I couldn't do that to someone whose DNA is free speech."

Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge

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Straight to the Point:
When Corporate Media Bias Is Baked In

In the fall of 2023, I brought CBS News a proposed interview opportunity with Elon Musk.

CBS Executives said the interview couldn't be done live, rather it had to be pre-recorded so they had the ability to edit Musk and it had to be on a CBS platform.

"We don't know what [@ElonMusk
] is going to say!"

I could not believe what the CBS News executives were saying. Isn't that the point of journalism? You don't know what the person's going to say?

At that time, @cbsnews
was under different management and did not respond to our questions seeking comment.

@thelatmg
@latimesstudios

So here's the obvious truth: "Reporters" want to grill opponents (and they do consider them "opponents") and make them look foolish and ask them questions they struggle to answer.

But "reporters" are themselves pretty stupid. Among "professionals," they're the least intelligent and educated. (And they're very lazy and have very high rates of alcoholism.)

"Reporters" do not want their opponents turning the tables on them and make them look foolish and make them struggle to answer questions.

That's why they insist, absolutely, on the power to edit the interview. To make sure they always come off looking like heroes and always come out on top.

But this is obviously a huge and corrupt deception. Editing an interview to make it look as if your debate opponent (and these are debates, not "interviews") lost is itself a corrupt lie. You are deliberately altering the actual historical record of the event to present a false story to the public.

The edit is for purposes of disinformation -- and a very narcissistic, self-serving form of disinformation.

posted by Ace at 02:30 PM

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