What is going on at CBS? Contemporary journalism and the quest for truth
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
CBS is facing allegations of biased journalism regarding recent interviews with Kamala Harris and author Ta-Nehisi Coates. The furor highlights our cultural rejection of objective truth and calls us to trust an authority higher than ourselves. We all want to believe that our work matters, that we are leaving a legacy by what we do. To this end, many believe that their words can make the world what they believe it should be. Our decision is whether to trust God’s revealed truth or “our truth.”
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to the Monday, October 14th, 2024 edition of the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:17.0 | The Columbia Broadcasting System, CBS, was founded nearly a hundred years ago. |
| 0:22.9 | It is sometimes called the Tiffany Network, alluding to its high programming quality during the tenure of its founding. |
| 0:30.2 | Now, people across the political spectrum are asking, what is going on at CBS? |
| 0:34.8 | First came allegations that 60 Minutes edited its interview with Vice President Kamala Harris to favor her. |
| 0:42.9 | Many called on the network to release a full transcript of the interview. |
| 0:46.9 | Former staffers demanded an independent investigation. |
| 0:50.1 | Then came the network's rebuke of morning anchor Tony DeCopal after he challenged author |
| 0:55.9 | Tennessee Coates, anti-Israel characterizations, and lack of historical context during |
| 1:01.8 | their discussion of Coates' one-sided new book on Palestine. The Washington Post spoke for many |
| 1:08.2 | in calling the interview good journalism. The chair of CBS's parent company later admitted that CBS leadership made a bad mistake in upbraiding to Coppel as it did. |
| 1:19.8 | Gail King has also been criticized for reportedly giving Coates her questions in advance of her part of the interview. |
| 1:27.4 | CBS is also under fire for |
| 1:29.2 | telling its staff not to refer to Jerusalem as part of Israel due to its quote-unquote disputed status. |
| 1:36.6 | We all want to believe that our work matters, that we are leaving a legacy by what we do. |
| 1:42.0 | Those of us whose work is words especially wonder if we're making a |
| 1:46.3 | difference. To this end, many believe that their words can make the world what they believe it |
| 1:52.4 | should be. Why? Our culture has jettisoned its belief in objective truth for what Stephen |
| 1:58.8 | Colbert calls truthiness, defined as, quote, the belief in what you feel to be true rather than what the facts will support, in quote. |
| 2:08.6 | As a result, some journalists believe that their value no longer lies in reporting the news, but in changing society. |
| 2:16.4 | Those on one side of the partisan divide think that they're |
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