Mucksharing
Good old mainstream meeja, giving extra publicity to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
CBS came under fire after devoting an interview on its flagship current affairs show, 60 Minutes, to Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right pro-Trump congresswoman from Georgia who has espoused conspiracy theories and faced censure for threatening behaviour towards Democrats.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York progressive congresswoman among those threatened by Greene, told Semafor: “These kinds of extreme and really just unprecedented and dangerous notions are getting platforms, without much pushback or real kind of critical analysis.”
Matthew Gertz, of the progressive watchdog Media Matters, told the same outlet: “Anyone who believes that the congresswoman from QAnon is serious about renouncing far-right radicalism and conspiracy theories should make me an offer on my Jewish space laser.”
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Gertz said: “Less than 48 hours after CBS News gives her a mainstream platform to airbrush her image, Marjorie Taylor Greene will be rallying with Jack Posobiec of Pizzagate fame and the quasi-fascists of the New York Young Republican Club to defend Donald Trump from what she calls the ‘political persecution’ of a ‘Soros-backed’ district attorney.”
Yes but Stahl definitely shook her head in disagreement at one point. Hard-hitting stuff.
Okay, I laughed up my mouthful of coffee at that.
It’s such a downfall for 60 Minutes, too. There was a time when they were so willing to grill an interviewee that the only reason people didn’t refuse to talk to them was the knowledge that they’d do the story anyway, and you’d look twice as bad for ducking the questions. Now they just give the platform over to whoever will make a splash.
Make a splash by jumping into a sewage pond.