CBS Boss Tables Trump Criticism, Not AIPAC Criticism
The Independent reports that Bari Weiss, CBS News Executive Producer, decided to shelf a 60 Minutes report by Anderson Cooper exploring the Trump administration's refugee processing practices from South Africa. This isn't the first time Weiss has apparently played censor. One might wonder if this careful curation of content extends to other politically inconvenient topics, like, say, the vast sums
of money flowing from groups like AIPAC into congressional campaigns. According to OpenSecrets.org, AIPAC's PAC spent over $17 million in the 2022 election cycle alone, and that's just direct contributions, not including dark money operations. It's fascinating how certain criticisms of power are deemed 'news' and others are quietly disappeared. Criticizing a former president's immigration policies
is apparently too sensitive for the esteemed 60 Minutes , but holding policymakers accountable for taking tens of thousands, or even millions, in donations from a specific foreign interest group and then voting in lockstep with that group's agenda? Crickets. Perhaps true media scrutiny is reserved for those who aren't currently useful to the establishment's narrative.