CBS News Announces We Love America' Revealing Lost Authority - Briefly
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"One has drawn outsized attention: We love America. And we make no apologies for saying so. That reaction is the story, not the value itself. For most of broadcast history, such a declaration would have been unnecessary. Patriotism was implied. It lived in the authority of the anchor chair, the cadence of the broadcast, and the institutional confidence of the networks. Love of country was not a value statement. It was the background condition."
"Weiss's diagnosis has been consistent for years: institutional arrogance, ideological homogeneity, and a tone that often reads as condescension. Whether one agrees with her prescriptions or not, that critique maps directly onto the trust problem broadcast news is facing. In that context, this unusually explicit pledge of patriotism reads as a legitimacy play: an attempt to substitute affective alignment for inherited authority."
CBS Evening News relaunched with five stated values promoted on social media, and one — 'We love America. And we make no apologies for saying so.' — drew outsized attention. Historically, patriotism was implicit in nightly broadcasts, embodied by anchor authority, cadence, and institutional confidence.
The values rollout followed Paramount's sale to the Ellison family and the involvement of Bari Weiss, whose critique of institutional arrogance, ideological homogeneity, and condescending tone targets the trust deficit facing broadcast news. The explicit patriotism functions as a legitimacy play, attempting to secure affective alignment with audiences as positional authority and structural trust have collapsed.
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I USED to love America, but that was at least a quarter of a century ago.
Patriotic people love their country, be they Democrats , Republicans, or independents. MAGA and Trump feed off the silly idea that THEY are the ones who truly love their country and others dont. It sounds like the new MAGA-ish CBS News is definitely headed in that direction.
it truly is amazing that a liberal, lesbian Jewish woman who a left a job because she couldn’t be as critical of trump as she wanted to be is now considered extreme right wing by the fringe left. They demand complete orthodoxy and will denounce anyone as MAGA who deviates from their dictated beliefs.
you simply aren’t allowed to think for yourself if you don’t want to denounced as a maga by the extreme left.. Were the red guards in the cultural revolution so zealous?
CBS was never "left" or even liberal. All the "major" networks are corporate. All of them welcomed Trump back into power even though he should have been run out of national politics on a rail. Over the past ten years the media has been far far too easy on him, not too critical.
If Bari Weiss was not the head of CBS News, would they have posted something saying "We Love America" as if the other networks and other media outlets do not?
Next will be a CBS posting on twitter saying " We Love Make America Great Again"
You don’t think Dan rather was obviously liberal? If you can’t see, or admit that, there’s really nothing left to sag.
All the "major" networks are corporate
so what? You don’t think corporations are all right wing do you? Wall Street is overwhelmingly, and I mean overwhelmingly run by liberals and has been for decades. 20 plus years bush struggled to a wall street leader who was even nominally a republican to be secretary of the treasury.
it’s not 1950 anymore. The Republican Party isn’t the party of country clubs, Wall Street and boardrooms….
Over the past ten years the media has been far far too easy on him, not too critical.
they spread lies about him, pushed whatever taking points democrats asked and did every thing short of advocating for murder in trying to stop him. That you think they were “too soft” shows just how far out on the fringe you are.
Trump is obviously not mentally , morally, psychologically, or ethically fit to be president of the United States. He never has been. It has been completely clear since 2015.
Birtherism made him completely unfit.
Tens of thousands of lies made him completely unfit.
His tweets made him completely unfit. In the earlier stages of his political career he had insulted or berated over 600 individuals or groups BY NAME on his twitter account. It's anybody's guess what the number is now. It is insane to think that such a person is fit for office.
His phone call to Zelensky trying to extort him into investigating Biden made him completely unfit.
His sitting in the oval office dining area eating snacks while his followers were beating on cops and trying to stop the vote count in Congress made him completely unfit. His own daughter pleaded with him to do something.
And his lunatic rants on Truth Social on the occasions of national holidays , which he has been doing for years, made him completely unfit.
Now, how many people on the big three networks have you seen say ANY of that over the past 10 years? The "liberal" pundits they have on their Sunday morning shows dont even say those things.
Trump made this post on twitter on the afternoon of jan 6th. It made him completely unfit to hold public office ever again. .
He made this twitter post AFTER he knew that dozens of cops had been injured by his followers.
You spend countless time on NT defending and speaking up for this piece of shit.
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I love America, even the poorly educated religious conservative warts and all. I just think it's long past time we get the warts out of power; they're doing nothing but embarrassing our great nation. Real Americans are strong, diverse, championing higher education, science, innovation and progress so that we can grow beyond the tired neanderthal mentality of rightwing religious conservatives.
There were so many of them the Times had to put this with the article
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
that is an alphabetical index of all the people trump insulted by name between 2015 and 2019.
This is an only slightly veiled attempt to say that NBC and ABC do not love America.
CBS is drifting, and not so slowly, toward MAGA. It could hurt Fox News but I dont see it damaging the other two big networks.
The biggest issue is that the right already has a huge propaganda machine in the media. We dont need any more of them.
I don't believe them.
Annnnddd then?
That is the question that they want you to fill in. The implication is that other news outlets don't love America and you need to get your news at CBS if you are a patriot and love America. On the flip side, if you do not agree with their coverage, then you are not patriotic and don't love America.
What a load of crap.