Scott Whitlock reports for Newsbusters.org on a scathing critique of mainstream media outlets from a former CBS News reporter. (Stop reading now if you want to avoid coarse language.)
Ex-CBS journalist Lara Logan on Friday unleashed a blistering, uncensored attack on the extreme liberal bias polluting America’s news outlets. Logan derided the “horses**t” “propagandist” press that has no interest in fairness.
Appearing on Mike Drop, the podcast of former Navy SEAL Mike Ritland, the foreign affairs correspondent and occasional 60 Minutes reporter berated slanted coverage in a way rarely seen by those in the mainstream press: “We’ve become political activists in a sense. And some could argue, propagandists, right?” Logan’s outburst came after noting former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson’s admission that the paper publishes “raw opinion” against Donald Trump. …
… Logan recounted how she used to not believe in the claim of a liberal press. But now she laments the “horseshit” low standards practiced by her fellow reporters:
“I didn’t even notice there was a bias in the media. People would say it to me all the time and I argued passionately and ferociously against that because I really believed when we do it well, and the majority of serious journalists were all trying to do their best to overcome those biases and rely on the facts and good systems. We have a few conventions — because they are not really rules — but you need at least two first-hand sources for something, right? Those things help keep your work to a certain standard. Those standards are out the window. I mean, you read one story or another and hear it and it’s all based on one anonymous administration official, former administration official. That’s not journalism. That’s horseshit. Sorry. That is absolute horseshit.”
