Read more from @jeremymbarr’s reporting:
“I know everyone I talked to today was embarrassed about the hiring.”
“Everyone is baffled.” https://t.co/S1ikh89Y8m
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) March 30, 2022
Maybe he couldn’t work conference calls or find the light switches in the Oval Office wing, but Mulvaney is an expert at tickling overpaid oligarchs’ fancies!
I’m old enough to remember when Mick admitted that they used military aid as part of a quid pro quo with Ukraine.
But hopefully, all those anchors at @CBSNews have Ukrainian flags next to their twitter handles cuz, that’s how you support them. Right? pic.twitter.com/amzZyYKLLt— Jo ? (@JoJoFromJerz) March 29, 2022
I forgot that *in a single news conference* Mulvaney announced Trump was going to hold a major international conference at a resort he owns and profits from *and* flatly admitted the president withheld military aid to Ukraine as leverage for political favors. Whew. https://t.co/NDgeuyKy7M
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 29, 2022
Mick Mulvaney wasn’t just a key player in the corrupt Trump administration, he was one of the most extreme anti-tax, anti-government spending Republicans in DC. He exists to stop taxes on billionaires.
It’s like inviting Greg Abbott on to analyze power grids and trans rights.
— Jordan Zakarin (@jordanzakarin) March 29, 2022
Neeraj Khemlani should be canned.. makes CBS even more marginal in news biz than it already ishttps://t.co/TRzcv8T50J
— Jennifer 'I stand with Ukraine' Rubin ???? (@JRubinBlogger) March 30, 2022
Mick Mulvaney was the architect of firing government employees by moving their jobs across country, including mine. Fuck @CBSNews. https://t.co/etLDdTqzhj
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) March 29, 2022
Thread, with receipts. When Chuck Todd gives someone the side-eye about their ‘ethics’…
CBS is now paying this guy (Mick Mulvaney) for analysis part 1 https://t.co/IsTQlyg5BF
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 29, 2022
Another thread full of damning items:
What does Mick Mulvaney bring to the table for CBS News? A lot of embarrassment. https://t.co/ux7iqyJfOq
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) March 29, 2022
CBS just hired Trump co-conspirator Mick Mulvaney, who told America to get over Trump's betrayal of Ukraine in favor of Russia.
Nice HR work there, Viacom. How's the tax evasion case coming? https://t.co/wqG19oHAt3
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 29, 2022
cain
Yet another day that reveals the failure that is the 4th estate.
SpaceUnit
At the boardroom level every corporate media outlet wishes they could be Fox News.
Albatrossity
Dunno if they are the enemy of the people, but the MSM seems to be the enemy of democracy these days.
Baud
I wonder which network will land Ivanka.
piratedan
I’m sure that Cronkite is spinning in his grave….
If they’re so sure that the GOP is going to win in the 2022 midterms, doesn’t imply that they’re in the bag already for the GOP and will slant coverage accordingly?
How much “access”? do these people need? Aren’t the Sunday shows overwhelmingly covered by GOP and ex-GOP pundits/politicians to the point where any Dem at any time is like a rare animal sighting?
Same old shit, we need to find a more effective means of getting our message to the masses, and perhaps the Dems are doing just that, but there’s still an not insignificant number of folks that get their nightly news from these places. It’s a repeat that you can have all the plans and the ideas and show your work, but just like in the Watergate hearings, if they don’t ask the questions, you don’t get to provide the answers.
WaterGirl
The corruption doesn’t stop with the Republicans in office. Much of the mainstream media is corrupt, too. It would be nice if we weren’t surrounded by blazing fires of corruption.
Mike in NC
@piratedan: Years ago (Clinton era?) someone joked that two of the Sunday talking head shows were “Meet the Republicans” and “Face the Conservatives”. Too true.
Kathleen
@Baud: I’m praying for Stephen Miller to land at NBC/MSNBC as part of their “Dems are doomed because they hate white people” season
ETA Remember how media mocked Hillary in late 90’s/early aughts when she talked about the vast right wing conspiracy? That woman has not been wrong about one damned thing.
Ken
“Next up, advice on reading your dog’s moods from our pet expert, David Berkowitz.”
schrodingers_cat
OT but related:
Our MSM can take notes. I am watching the Oscar nominated documentary Writing with Fire on PBS right now. These women are beyond brave.
More at the link above if anyone is interested.
eclare
It will be interesting to see what Colbert says about this tonight.
cain
@Albatrossity: It doesn’t generate enough page clicks and people are not watching ads. So Democracy has to go. That’s the free market for ya!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
seems to me there’s been a history of crossovers between CBS and Fox. John Roberts, Major Garrett, Lara Logan, a couple of upper-level executives, including David Rhodes
punchline: David is the brother of Obama aide Ben Rhodes, coiner of “The Blob” and if I read between the lines correctly, source of “leading from behind
ETA: Cheryl Atkinson! how could I forget the Obama-hacked-my-keyboard lady?
eclare
@schrodingers_cat: Sounds interesting.
debbie
What if Nick’s indicted by the DOJ?
different-church-lady
I suppose it’s easy to know Republicans will win the midterms if you’re gonna hire a patent Republican flack to stick his thumb and the rest of his ass on the scale, yes.
eclare
@debbie: Do you mean Mick?
Sure Lurkalot
We can only hope that the scrutiny and leaks will reverse the ludicrous decision to hire the shameless hack that is Mick Mulvaney.
I fear there’s no fix for the 4th estate as a whole. It seems they have no appetite for work, truth or democracy.
West of the Rockies
Weird how this rarely works the other way… CBS doesn’t hire Melissa Harris Perry or John Kerry.
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
Was under the impression Santorum holds exclusivity on that.
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schrodingers_cat
@eclare: It is bittersweet. I have started following Khabar Lahariya on Twitter.
West of the Rockies
@West of the Rockies:
Of course, they’re both qualified and not corrupt.
I suppose Anthony Weiner would be a better example.
NotMax
@NotMax
Silly me. Was repeatedly reading that as “leaking from behind.”
debbie
@eclare:
Sigh, yes.
Ken
I’m guessing he’ll go for “a vicious attack on the free press by the criminal Biden administration.” I’m not sure what CBS would do.
Uncle Cosmo
@schrodingers_cat: Hey SC, question I’ve been meaning to axe yinz:
When I search for Ukrainian war videos on YouTube I get (among others) a bunch from the Subcontinent: India Today, Hindustan Times, RepublicWorld, et al. I’ve been avoiding them as probably little more than shills for Modi’s Putin-puffing Hindufascismus. Any of them worth looking into IYHO?
Winston
Why doesn’t the DNC buy ABC, NBC, Netflix, make a bid for FOX CNBC? After all we got SOROS and Bezos, don’t we? DON’T WE? Maybe we could get RT and Sinclair if the money is right? RIGHT?
NotMax
@Ken
Re-assign him as the first network correspondent exclusively on the San Marino beat.
“Office scuttlebutt is I’m next in line to be bumped up to Lichtenstein.”
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WaterGirl
@West of the Rockies:
I’m not sure Anthony Weiner is corrupt. Bad judgment for sure, and probably a lot of issues, but not corrupt. Unless I’m forgetting some other awful thing he has done.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: I would like to un-see that sentence, please.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
At least he had the sense to resign rather than decide to stick it out.
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cain
@West of the Rockies: Come to think of it – I can’t recall a single instance a Dem politician is hired by the major press.
I mean by now, you’d think that Hillary would have her own show. Shit it would be pretty popular too.
NotMax
@cain
McCaskill, for one.
phdesmond
these last few weeks, we’ve met at least a dozen members of the Ukrainian parliament on msnbc.
Winston
@NotMax: Wasn’t James Carville for a while?
NotMax
@Winston
Carville was an advisor, not a politician. Otherwise I would have brought up examples such as Pierre Salinger and Stephanopolous
Jeffro
This is the kind of thing where everyone on the left should pile on publicly and push to get Mulvaney’s gig canceled. No point in letting him poison the airwaves or line his pockets, and he’s an easy target.
C’mon Ds! Let’s go get a (thinning) scalp here!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@NotMax: some of the definitions of “employees” are vague, “contributor”, “analyst”, panelist on a Sunday show (which I quit watching over a decade ago, I think that’s the most respectable TV perch). Off the top of my head: Jane Harman, Donna Edwards, Howard Dean, Barbara Boxer, sometime-Democrat Nina Turner (ptui!). That’s just electeds. Former campaign hacks are a dime-a-dozen (yet the highest paid ‘contributors’ I believe get six figure contracts).
Kropacetic
@WaterGirl: I don’t know the full story of his dick pics but I’m still of the mind that politicians shouldn’t get in trouble for consentual sexual behavior, however freaky.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: I am just gonna let that lie there.
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
If they’re contractually salaried, they’re employees, regardless of the title by which they’re introduced.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Marge Green, Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks…. them they’re cool with
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
“The first rule of Cocaine Club….”
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Kathleen
@NotMax: Ikki Leaks.
Ella in New Mexico
@Baud: Lifetime?
Skepticat
I have a very old, pre-Woodward/Bernstein degree in journalism that I never really used, though I was a news photographer for a tiny TV station in Bangor, Maine, right out of college and an ABC News stringer for several years. I used to sit in the control room and listen to Howard K. Smith and Frank Reynolds chat between New York and D.C. while getting ready to go on the air with the ABC Evening News. They and their colleagues were true professional journalists, not entertainers, and those two were gentlemen in the finest sense of the word. Television news had just gone to color, and one night Smith was saying he was having a terrible time finding a yellow shirt (blue shirts no longer could be worn on air because of chroma key issues). He happened to mention his size, so a friend and I went shopping in backwoods Bangor—and found for him an elusive yellow shirt unavailable in the big cities. I hope I still have somewhere in storage the wonderful thank-you note he sent, and I most remember the line “I thank you, and the people who have to work with me under hot studio lights thank you.” I’m glad those professionals can’t see the travesty that “news” is today; I wish we didn’t have to.
James E Powell
@cain:
They’re doing what they want & getting what they want. Can’t really call that failure.
Another Scott
A twist on an old fable that applies to much of the news these days…
Thread.
Well done.
Cheers,
Scott.
James E Powell
@Kathleen:
For the most part you’re right that she’s right, but back when she said half of Trump’s supporters were a basket of deplorables, she undercounted by a wide margin.
schrodingers_cat
@Uncle Cosmo: You did good some of the channels you mention put Fox to shame.
Article-14 is a good resource with solid reporting
schrodingers_cat
On a completely shallow note, young HRC was hot.
dexwood
@Baud: Highest bidder. of course.
Another Scott
About that inflation stuff… Dean Baker at CEPR:
Well worth a click.
Cheers,
Scott.
Splitting Image
The single most patriotic thing an American can do these days is cut their cable. Make these guys irrelevant.
The harder part of the equation is going to be rebuilding a news industry from scratch, and that is going to have to be done. Circumventing industry-leader Fox and its johnny-come-lately imitators like CBS isn’t going to get the job done.
Elizabelle
They need to can that “co-president.” Fascist.
Those fuckers want their tax cuts.
Elizabelle
@Skepticat: It has been so sad to watch, hasn’t it?
Turning the news into a profit center. Into infotainment. Into pravda, now.
Kathleen
@James E Powell: This is true.