Get ready to dive deep into the forces shaping the media landscape! Our latest episode dissects the hidden power dynamics behind the news and entertainment you see every day. We explore CBS's recent editorial decisions, including their approach to fact-checking the vice presidential debate and handling interviews with prominent figures like Kamala Harris and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Join us as we expose and debate the underlying biases and agendas in mainstream media.
00:00:02.224 --> 00:00:08.175 When you thought you were in the clear and you thought that the insanity was almost over.
00:00:08.175 --> 00:00:14.435 David and I are going to twist it and tell you the hurricane is still flying in America.
00:00:14.435 --> 00:00:33.472 Why America, you know, in 1886, a small company called Paramount, which is Westinghouse Electronics Corporation, a small company called Paramount, which is Westinghouse Electronics Corporation, was founded and became 1912 famous players and along the way it acquired companies and sold companies.
00:00:33.472 --> 00:00:40.176 So CBS Broadcasting is part of Paramount, which actually used to be CBS, I mean, and the name's flip-flop.
00:00:40.176 --> 00:00:56.560 But let me be clear what was once and what is now aren't the same thing and and I know a lot of people are challenged with that statement, and I think that statement really doesn't explain what we're about to talk about.
00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:04.465 But as my twisted way, I will spin it in a way that it will all make sense by the time we're done.
00:01:04.465 --> 00:01:25.719 This rant Once upon a time is the way we start a fable and that is the way CBS and its company and its broadcasting editorial rights seem to be operating in a story mode, and they do.
00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:33.674 Rules for me, not for thee, which is a cliche that I've been ranting about for literally three and a half years, and we've documented and we've isolated who and why.
00:01:33.674 --> 00:01:42.260 And unfortunately it isn't the the, the latter of the past, it's still the future of the present.
00:01:43.162 --> 00:01:44.628 Welcome everybody to the Rant Network.
00:01:44.628 --> 00:01:50.042 My name is Stuart Briscoe.
00:01:50.042 --> 00:01:51.204 That's my co-host, david Solomon, calling shirt today.
00:01:51.204 --> 00:01:59.808 Sir, thank you, as we peel back the layers on a multitude of topics, especially this one censorship name calling kind of interesting.
00:01:59.808 --> 00:02:07.090 We're here about all raw, unfiltered dialogue that serves as an outlet to voice opinion, exchange ideas from every corner of life.
00:02:07.090 --> 00:02:15.508 As we dive into this current issue, we cover pop culture, politics and quirks of existence, whatever really we feel like venting about that day.
00:02:15.508 --> 00:02:28.853 Every Monday, wednesday, friday, noon, easter, we tackle the big questions that shape our world, that the media and you see I'm using the word media and not news, right, two different words.
00:02:28.853 --> 00:02:31.020 Get comfortable, david.
00:02:31.020 --> 00:02:46.450 We've been talking about this for a very, very long time News media, they're not mutually the same and that is where I think the world has gone.
00:02:48.705 --> 00:02:49.266 You know, it's sort of.
00:02:49.266 --> 00:02:49.568 It's even.
00:02:49.568 --> 00:02:53.329 Actually, you know you're, it's not news anymore, it's entertainment.
00:02:53.329 --> 00:02:56.026 Okay, but let's be realistic here.
00:02:56.026 --> 00:02:56.868 We're talking about it today.
00:02:56.868 --> 00:02:59.086 We're not informing people, we're educating.
00:02:59.086 --> 00:03:01.824 Nope, we're in, we're entertaining people.
00:03:01.824 --> 00:03:11.628 That's what this has become store, and the education in the information and the right way of doing it is out the window.
00:03:12.491 --> 00:03:18.147 If you go to a journalist school today, you know any school of journalism, stuart you're going to hear the same thing.
00:03:18.147 --> 00:03:25.631 Okay, very left leaning mantras, what is considered right, what's considered wrong.
00:03:25.631 --> 00:03:27.234 There's no neutrality.
00:03:29.683 --> 00:03:34.985 Liberal and social or progressivism, whatever you want to call it is the right way and the only way.
00:03:34.985 --> 00:03:44.662 Israel and all the other countries who are in the colonizers category United States, canada, england they're bad.
00:03:44.662 --> 00:03:46.924 There's an oppressed group.
00:03:46.924 --> 00:03:48.145 They're the good ones.
00:03:48.145 --> 00:03:54.209 If you go to the school of journalism, that's what you're going to hear again and again, and again, and that's only one part of the problem.
00:03:54.209 --> 00:04:06.516 The other part of the problem is, stuart, you said it, cbs is owned by Paramount, a corporation with shareholders and people that you need to satisfy.
00:04:06.516 --> 00:04:18.130 And, stuart, you, as a financial advisor, know okay that when you have Skydance Media and Paramount Global, you know who've come together and they own these entities.
00:04:18.130 --> 00:04:24.108 There's a means to an end and it's not just getting the ad dollars but also swaying elections.
00:04:24.108 --> 00:04:26.374 Now you could sit here and say that's conspiracy talk.
00:04:26.374 --> 00:04:31.331 It isn't, people, because follow the trail, follow the smell.
00:04:31.331 --> 00:04:37.050 And here's the smell for CBS in just not even two weeks.
00:04:38.333 --> 00:04:38.793 Let's start.
00:04:38.793 --> 00:04:40.565 We had the vice presidential debate.
00:04:40.565 --> 00:04:43.766 Rules were set out, rules were laid out.
00:04:43.766 --> 00:04:45.403 Cbs breached them.
00:04:45.403 --> 00:04:46.086 That's right.
00:04:46.086 --> 00:04:50.565 They agreed to not fact check live and did.
00:04:50.565 --> 00:04:55.293 When JD Vance spoke, but not when Tim Walz spoke.
00:04:55.293 --> 00:04:57.442 They cut off JD Vance's mic.
00:04:57.442 --> 00:05:06.076 When he wanted to correct the journalists the so-called journalists, these so-called reputed journalists of their mistake, they cut off his mic.
00:05:06.076 --> 00:05:16.958 The questioning when we saw on CBS that followed the ABC style of doing things, wasn't the same.
00:05:16.958 --> 00:05:33.466 There was no equality and if you talk to any neutral evaluator judge who looked at the vice presidential debate steward, they said it was very clear that the questioning for the Democratic side was much softer, easier, no challenge, but the Republican is challenged, normal.
00:05:33.466 --> 00:05:35.533 That's the debate.
00:05:36.495 --> 00:05:38.982 But let's take a look at what happened since Sunday.
00:05:38.982 --> 00:05:43.910 Sunday is a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.
00:05:43.910 --> 00:05:50.305 Now I give some credit to the interviewer who tried to get her to answer a question which she wouldn't.
00:05:50.305 --> 00:05:59.769 But that wasn't the egregious part of it, stuart, and I'm not here to talk about Kamala Harris, who couldn't answer a question to get herself out of like.
00:05:59.769 --> 00:06:01.112 You know God knows where.
00:06:02.940 --> 00:06:13.048 Bill Whitaker asked a question about Israel and when you saw the preview, you know that 60 Minutes was using to the lead the promotional piece.
00:06:13.048 --> 00:06:19.516 Kamala Harris gave one answer, but when it came up to the actual interview there was a different answer.
00:06:19.516 --> 00:06:22.742 60 Minutes edited her answer.
00:06:22.742 --> 00:06:25.708 I'll repeat that 60 Minutes.
00:06:25.708 --> 00:06:31.062 Cbs edited her answer because they didn't like the original.
00:06:31.062 --> 00:06:32.908 What do you call that?
00:06:32.908 --> 00:06:35.384 Where's the journalistic integrity in that?
00:06:35.384 --> 00:06:38.211 And let's fast forward to what just happened.
00:06:38.230 --> 00:06:38.831 This past week.
00:06:38.831 --> 00:07:02.175 Cbs Morning's host, tony Ducoupil and I apologize if I screwed up his name is part of an interview with a clearly controversial African-American named Tanehisi Coates Pardon me, my notes are here to the right and he writes this book and it's like it's not.
00:07:02.175 --> 00:07:12.452 If it was written by a white person about the Black community, about someone else, it would be considered very controversial, even racist.
00:07:12.452 --> 00:07:18.480 His book, the Message, passionately argues that Israel's treatment of Palestinians is immoral and should be condemned.
00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:20.386 Great opinion, thank you so much.
00:07:20.386 --> 00:07:21.848 His opinion in a book.
00:07:21.848 --> 00:07:28.512 And they bring him on to CBS for an interview and Dolkapil asks him, challenges him as a good journalist, should?
00:07:28.512 --> 00:07:33.242 Why leave out Israel that is surrounded by countries that wanted to eliminate it?
00:07:33.242 --> 00:07:36.327 That was called bad journalism.
00:07:36.327 --> 00:07:39.494 How dare you confront Ta-Nehisi Coates?
00:07:39.494 --> 00:07:42.867 And this is where it was interesting.
00:07:42.867 --> 00:07:44.891 Right, entertainment television.
00:07:44.891 --> 00:08:00.755 It's okay for CNN and MSNBC to crop on a conservative, but get a load of what DeLucaville says, quote I have to say when I read the book I imagine if I took your name out of it, took away the awards, the acclaim, the content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist.
00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:07.060 What do you think happened at CBS?
00:08:07.060 --> 00:08:11.184 His bosses, wendy McMahon and Adrian Rourke, who are supposedly head of the news department, destroyed him.
00:08:11.184 --> 00:08:13.225 There's audio.
00:08:13.225 --> 00:08:14.826 They destroyed him.
00:08:14.826 --> 00:08:20.132 That is not the journalistic integrity, that is not the editorial stance of CBS.
00:08:20.132 --> 00:08:26.177 Clearly it wasn't, because clearly it's not what CBS stands for.
00:08:26.177 --> 00:08:34.490 Cbs stands for an agenda and the agenda is clear Get Kamala Harris and the Democrats elected.
00:08:34.490 --> 00:08:38.629 If it means sweeping out every Republican known to man, they don't care.
00:08:38.629 --> 00:08:39.972 We've seen it twice.
00:08:41.341 --> 00:08:52.051 And then the second one, stuart, which I really thoroughly love now, is their stance on Israel that you cannot tell somebody that they might be wrong, that their philosophies are wrong.
00:08:52.051 --> 00:08:59.893 We cannot challenge thought because it doesn't conform with the CBS's policy that Israel is a colonial state.
00:08:59.893 --> 00:09:01.682 How interesting.
00:09:01.682 --> 00:09:09.561 Well, look, it's crazy, because legal correspondent Jan Crawford took issue with the decision.
00:09:09.561 --> 00:09:22.942 She wrote I thought our commitment was to the truth, to the truth, and when someone comes on our air and with a one-sided account of a very complex situation has co-himself acknowledged that he has.
00:09:22.942 --> 00:09:31.779 It's my understanding that as journalists we are obligated to challenge that worldview so that our viewers can have that access to the truth or a fuller account of a more balanced account.
00:09:31.779 --> 00:09:34.466 But his bosses didn't believe that.
00:09:34.466 --> 00:09:35.788 Now let's go.
00:09:35.788 --> 00:09:45.202 Let me just wrap this up by saying sherry redstone, who is the chair of Paramount, is backing Tony Duffield this morning and it's good to see that someone really cares.
00:09:45.202 --> 00:10:07.364 But, stuart, what I'm seeing and I've gone on them other groups are doing is giving you a seriously jaded, one-sided, agenda-based information.
00:10:07.725 --> 00:10:09.508 All right, so let me just jump on this.
00:10:09.508 --> 00:10:18.703 Let's first start that this is a publicly traded company and what I don't seem to hear is I think we're all in agreement that it was a political ad.
00:10:18.703 --> 00:10:34.965 By their edits, by their demeanor, by their questions, it was a political ad campaign and according to the SEC which I'm trying to get my computer to cooperate here and there is a statute, it's an advertising rule for public communication.
00:10:34.965 --> 00:10:45.350 So when Donald Trump says I want to have CBS's license pulled and auctioned off, he actually had a valid point.
00:10:45.350 --> 00:11:01.408 They are right now in violation, as far as I can see, in the simple regulatory act of transparency and accountability, and that CBS News piece was a hatchet marketing campaign.
00:11:01.408 --> 00:11:21.325 And that, my friend, is the big difference that I think that if we got any really smart, snazzy lawyers that wanted to push the envelope, that would be the envelope I would start pushing, because it's not only unfair, unlawful, it's illegal and what they're doing is wrong morally, ethically and all grounds.
00:11:22.047 --> 00:11:28.508 You can't take a pumpkin and sell it as a potato just because it grows in the ground.
00:11:28.508 --> 00:11:30.119 I'm sorry, of course they can.
00:11:30.119 --> 00:11:31.022 That's what they're saying.
00:11:31.022 --> 00:11:37.721 It is, ah, but, david, that doesn't take away the reality it's not.
00:11:37.721 --> 00:11:41.767 Kamala Harris has lots of ideas.
00:11:41.767 --> 00:11:51.167 Maybe we're not really sure Because she doesn't come forward, she doesn't present herself, she reads a teleprompter, not even.
00:11:51.167 --> 00:11:56.027 Well, listen, donald Trump is a pathetic oratory guy.
00:11:56.027 --> 00:11:58.434 The man talks about himself in a third person.
00:11:58.434 --> 00:12:00.000 The man repeats himself.
00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:01.504 The man likes to do funny things.
00:12:01.504 --> 00:12:10.902 But the CBS act where they took her and packaged her up like a cream puff is just an ad.
00:12:11.899 --> 00:12:13.384 No, they tried to make her better.
00:12:13.384 --> 00:12:15.159 Her answers were cream puff.
00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:18.345 They had to edit it so they could make her look a little more presidential.
00:12:18.345 --> 00:12:24.863 That's just what cbs, that's what they've got to do right now, because the woman cannot be good enough to do it.
00:12:24.863 --> 00:12:27.337 So the media is doing her bidding.
00:12:27.337 --> 00:12:30.427 Yep, but story I'll go.
00:12:30.427 --> 00:12:31.029 I'll tell you something.
00:12:31.029 --> 00:12:36.548 You know, one thing is interesting is yeah, and again, you see where the lines are drawn in this interview.
00:12:36.548 --> 00:12:43.363 Okay, because coats ends up going to trevor noah, who has made his fair share of remarks against Israel and the Jewish community.
00:12:44.014 --> 00:12:45.701 And you know, coates feels bad.
00:12:45.701 --> 00:12:56.801 Because, you know, doca Pell didn't let Gayle King and Nate Burleson speak in this interview and he's commenting about it and it's like you know what, stop with this freaking.
00:12:56.801 --> 00:13:00.336 You know victim attitude.
00:13:00.336 --> 00:13:01.817 Okay, dude, you wrote a book.
00:13:01.817 --> 00:13:03.621 It's wrong.
00:13:03.621 --> 00:13:11.207 Someone comes to you and says you're wrong and I want to challenge you on that, which is what journalism is supposed to be digging for the truth.
00:13:12.091 --> 00:13:23.582 And you know it's interesting, stuart, because one of the things when I worked in media and I worked with several editors and I asked them straight out, they said listen, you need sourcing, you need proper sourcing.
00:13:23.582 --> 00:13:26.331 You can't just report off the top of your head.
00:13:26.331 --> 00:13:32.035 And now I asked the same editor, stewart, because I used to work with him years ago where is the sourcing nowadays?
00:13:32.035 --> 00:13:33.341 And he goes forget it, it's gone.
00:13:33.341 --> 00:13:38.379 People are making crap up and calling it news, and that's what tenancy coates has done.
00:13:38.379 --> 00:13:39.282 He's written a book.
00:13:39.282 --> 00:13:40.586 Where is his sourcing?
00:13:40.586 --> 00:13:45.143 Listen, if you're going to quote the klu klux klan, that's a source, but be open to be challenged.
00:13:45.203 --> 00:13:46.144 I'm not saying he did that.
00:13:46.144 --> 00:13:53.596 I'm saying, if you were just based on the premise of his book and I've heard this type of policies where's the other?
00:13:53.596 --> 00:13:55.823 Where is the other side?
00:13:55.823 --> 00:14:03.163 And if news is supposed to be balanced, stuart and that's the word you keep hearing there has to be balance.
00:14:03.163 --> 00:14:05.591 So if someone brings one side, listen, you bring it in.
00:14:05.591 --> 00:14:11.357 You have an interview with someone on the Democrats and all you do is interview Democrats.
00:14:11.357 --> 00:14:11.698 Guess what?
00:14:11.698 --> 00:14:13.023 You're only going to get one side.
00:14:13.023 --> 00:14:16.510 The reason you bring Republicans over is to create a balance.
00:14:16.510 --> 00:14:19.346 The reason you do that is to create the two sides.
00:14:19.346 --> 00:14:21.852 Apparently, that's not good enough for CBS.
00:14:21.852 --> 00:14:25.405 So it's only a one sided, you know, one sided package.
00:14:25.405 --> 00:14:37.693 We're going to give you one version of the vice president, which is completely edited, and we're going to give you a tarnished version of what Israel stands for, because that, ladies and gentlemen, is all that CBS wants to convey.
00:14:40.100 --> 00:14:50.027 You know, david, there are cheaters, there are losers, and in this case they are cheaters and losers, but, stuart, they're not losing because they're getting their fair share of viewers.
00:14:50.427 --> 00:14:57.225 And they are guilty guilty of slander, they're guilt, they're guilty of misleading the population.
00:14:57.225 --> 00:14:58.107 But it's not just them.
00:14:58.107 --> 00:14:59.490 There's a horde.
00:14:59.490 --> 00:15:08.551 There are hordes of the media, and is there any wonder why people are cutting their cords and are looking for real news, not this entertainment.
00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:14.533 That's the rise of social media and that is the death to the news networks and cable network.
00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:20.208 Look at the podcasts that are going out there and I'm saying, look, I'll give, I'll give a guy like Chris Cuomo and I'll give you an example.
00:15:20.208 --> 00:15:21.375 Ok, I'm not, I'm not a.
00:15:21.375 --> 00:15:34.798 I don't agree with everything Chris Cuomo said, but if you he's on Newsation right now and he's made a few remarks and you know what, I applaud him because here's a guy who CNN forced him to do one thing, one message.
00:15:34.798 --> 00:15:38.408 Had he brought his message today to CNN, he'd be fired.
00:15:38.408 --> 00:15:42.159 Just to give you an idea, that's what media has become today.
00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:43.562 Let's wrap it up, stuart.
00:15:44.222 --> 00:15:45.024 That's a wrap, guys.
00:15:46.205 --> 00:15:48.807 Huge thanks, thanks, lending your ears, your eyes, your time.
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00:16:27.788 --> 00:16:34.431 I think it's a wrap, but you know what guys See you every Monday, wednesday, friday, noon, eastern David, until Monday.
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