CBS News has been known as a bastion of liberal bias for decades. Its shows, from 60 Minutes to CBS Sunday Morning, are consumed with a leftist slant.
The segments picked for 60 Minutes are almost entirely anti-Republican or anti-conservative. Same with their other political programs. But there was a ray of light a couple of weeks ago when 60 Minutes allowed for a truly moderate reporter, Major Garrett, to do an interview with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. It wasn’t a “gotcha” piece. It was hard-hitting, yet fair.
But that was an anomaly.
Anytime 60 Minutes would have a Republican being interviewed, it was usually someone like Rand Paul criticizing Trump. I guess that’s their idea of equal time for the conservatives.
Contrast that to how lavishly Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia was treated by the libs at CNN in the Easter profile they ran on his role as a preacher.
Just this past week, 60 Minutes aired a story on the $100 billion train to nowhere debacle in California. This is the story long ignored by the liberal media of how Democrats in California, particularly Governor Gavin Newsom, squandered over $100 billion on a proposed tram from Los Angeles to San Francisco, without even a mile of the system being completed.
Give credit to 60 Minutes for at least finally acknowledging this fraud, but, once again, they covered for the Democrats in not specifically calling out Newsom and the ridiculous policies espoused by the Democrats that led to this waste.
They interviewed some of the governor’s appointees who were allowed to lay blame on the federal government, the general economy and other extraneous factors that they claim led to the overrun. (Funny that Florida was able to bring its tram from Miami to Orlando on time and on budget because they did not have the ridiculous labor, environmental and bureaucratic policies as posed by California’s Democrats.)
Had 60 Minutes laid out why this debacle happened in the first place, then we would have known that they are truly once again a legitimate news organization. They’re not there yet, but hopefully, Bari Weiss’ influence will continue to tilt them in that direction.