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Well, folks, it’s hard to believe, but our shameless propaganda media has sunk to levels lower than we ever thought possible. And, to make matters worse, things are getting downright terrifying. What if we told you that a so-called “trusted” news source in the United States—the land of the “free press”—is now running their story ideas through a radical left-wing ideology department that has the power to approve or disapprove of what airs on American televisions and across the internet?

Sounds pretty horrifying, right? Like something straight out of Soviet Russia. Well, grab a bowl of borscht and get cozy, because the story we’re about to tell you isn’t from old Mother Russia—it’s happening right here at home, and it involves none other than CBS News. According to a new report, CBS must now get the “okay” from a radical new department before any of their stories ever make it to air or print.

Let freedom ring, right?

Incredibly, that department, which OF COURSE was created in the wake of George Floyd’s overdose and heart attack death, is called the “Race and Culture Unit.” You may be curious: what exactly happens if a CBS News employee runs afoul of the “Race and Culture Unit”? Apparently, the answer is a company-wide, hilarious struggle session.

Puck News has the story:

On Monday, the anniversary of the October 7 attacks, Paramount Global chairwoman Shari Redstone was alerted to a fast-metastasizing, five-alarm shitshow at her company’s news division—and one that would turn out to be particularly personal for her. Earlier that morning, on a staff-wide call, CBS News C.E.O. Wendy McMahon and her deputy Adrienne Roark had stunned their teams by announcing that a recent CBS Mornings interview with the author Ta-Nehisi Coates had failed to meet the network’s editorial standards.

The executives didn’t specify the offense or offender, but they didn’t need to. McMahon and Roark were obviously admonishing the show’s co-anchor, Tony Dokoupil, for his interrogative on-air scrutiny of Coates and his new book, The Message. During a recent seven-minute segment, which had aired a week earlier, on September 30, the normally mild-mannered and affable Dokoupil came in hot to the roundtable interview with co-hosts Gayle King and Nate Burleson, the former NFL player. Dokoupil kicked things off by noting that The Message offered a one-sided account of the Israel-Palestine conflict that, absent Coates’s name and reputation and an American publisher, wouldn’t have been out of place in an extremist’s backpack.

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Public scrutiny over the interview was relatively limited. Yes, it had garnered tens of millions of views and invited predictable criticism on Twitter from both sides. But Coates himself had not criticized the interview publicly, and The Washington Post had even commended the network for the unusually thought-provoking morning segment, declaring it “calm,” “heartfelt,” and “substantive.”

Internally, however, the fallout quickly gathered steam. Within 24 hours of the interview, McMahon had come under enormous pressure from several dozen employees in New York and abroad—foreign correspondents, morning show producers, seasoned veterans, and younger hands alike—who took issue with Dokoupil’s treatment of Coates, as well as what they perceived as his history of editorializing on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Meanwhile, a veritable alphabet soup of journalistic organizations—AAJA, SAJA, NABJ, AMEJA, etcetera—signaled plans to write letters of protest.

Last Tuesday, while the CBS News leadership was consumed with the network’s vice presidential debate, the issue was elevated to the network’s Race and Culture unit, which was formed in the summer of 2020, amid the George Floyd reckoning, and determines whether the “tone, content, and intention” of any segment or package are suitable for the network’s air. The unit, led by Alvin Patrick, determined that while Dokoupil’s questions and intentions were acceptable, his tone was not.

Meanwhile, the network’s Standards and Practices division, led by Claudia Milne, determined that Dokoupil had not followed the preproduction process wherein questions are run through Race and Culture and Standards and Practices. The following day, McMahon reached out to Dokoupil directly and informed him that the network would need to address the violation with staff, though she and Roark would spend the next three days deliberating over exactly how to do that. Ultimately, McMahon decided to have Roark announce the violation at the all-hands meeting, which angered a lot of Dokoupil’s friends and acolytes at the network.

On Monday morning, which happened to be the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, Roark noted that Dokoupil’s indelicate tone failed to uphold “the legacy of neutrality and objectivity that is CBS News.” And then all hell broke loose.

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Many within the media ruling class acknowledged that McMahon probably could not have handled this any worse, a point they reiterated after learning that CBS News had planned to follow up on Tuesday by bringing in Dr. Donald Grant, a self-described “mental health expert, D.E.I. strategist, and trauma trainer,” to moderate a staff-wide discussion on the issue. Shortly after I reported that detail, an Instagram post by Grant portraying Republican Senator Tim Scott as Uncle Tom surfaced on Twitter, inviting widespread scrutiny of CBS News from the right, both for its choice of Dr. Grant as well as its decision to invite a D.E.I. strategist and trauma trainer in the first place. CBS News ultimately decided not to include Dr. Grant.

Wait. It gets better. The struggle session carried on over to Tuesday:

These tensions poured over into a subsequent all-hands meeting on Tuesday, which the CBS Mornings executive producer Shawna Thomas had organized for the express purpose of trying to foster greater communication across the network. During the call, which Dokoupil joined, one employee said the anchor’s treatment of Coates was “racist,” “xenophobic,” and “Islamophobic.”

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Some argued that Dokoupil’s editorializing put foreign correspondents in danger, while others complained that, by commandeering the interview, he had deprived his Black co-hosts, King and Burleson, from asking their own questions.

Putting aside the hilarity of it all, it’s downright Orwellian that CBS is running all of its content through a new regime-inspired racial “Ministry of Truth,” undoubtedly manned by hardcore Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion commissars.

Of course, Revolver has been all over the regime’s attempts to jumpstart a “truth” ministry. In fact, we published a piece three years ago, exposing ties between the first attempt at a Harris/Biden “Ministry of Truth” and the DHS to help in their war against all things MAGA.

READ: Revolver Investigates Disturbing Link Between DHS and the Domestic War on MAGA

The revelation about CBS News’ “Race and Culture” unit raises an important question: Is CBS filtering content on its own, or is the government giving them a nudge—just like they did with Facebook? We deserve answers.

And if that’s not enough for you, there’s even more CBS scandal. Rumors are swirling that they colluded with the Harris campaign to edit her 60 Minutes interview. Just take a look at the difference between the edited version most Americans will see and her actual “word salad” response that is nervous, jumbled, and very confused-sounding.

Puck News has gone so far as to confirm that the 60 Minutes deceptive edit to clean up Harris’ word salad actually runs afoul of its own internal journalistic standards.

Puck News:

On Wednesday, while CBS News was still scrambling to clean up the Dokoupil mess, the network was on to another micro-scandal: 60 Minutes had released two different transcripts of its interview with Kamala Harris, leading the Trump campaign to accuse the network of trying to edit the remarks in her favor. The error, whatever its cause, was an obvious violation of the CBS News standard guide, which states, verbatim, that “answers to different questions may not be combined to give the impression of one continuous response.” It continued, in a line that evokes the nostalgia and anxiety and wishful thinking of the era, “You cannot create an answer merely because you wish the subject had said it better.”

What’s really amazing is that, even with all the editing, that 60 Minutes interview was still a failure.

What we’re watching unfold is just more of the same: election interference from the regime-run media. Is CBS the new SuperPAC for the Dems? At this point, it’s impossible to trust anything that comes from the United States mainstream media. They’ve proven time and time again that they are the true enemy of the people. And with CBS’s new “Gestapo Department,” approving all on-air stories, it’s only going to get worse. When a country loses its free press, it’s all downhill from there, and the US is already speeding toward the bottom of that godforsaken hill.

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