CBS is at War With the Truth...Again

Are they flirting with another lawsuit?

Sunday, just two months after its parent company, Paramount, CBS agreed to pay the Trump campaign $16 million to settle an election interference lawsuit for deceptively editing an interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, the outlet aired its edited version of Homeland Security Secretary Kristie Noem's answer to a question about Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The network cut about four minutes from the nearly 17-minute interview, namely, the truth about the danger the individual poses to American public safety.

So-called American "news" media seem to be at war with the Truth.

Be informed, not misled.

What Noem actually said was, "The one thing that we will continue to do is to make sure that he doesn't walk free in the United States of America. This individual was a known human smuggler, an MS-13 gang member, and an individual who was a wife beater."

But the network cut that truth out of the 17-minute interview. 

Which is why Secretary Noem agreed to be on the CBS program in the first place. She was trying to get the truth out to the country about Garcia.

Curtis Houck of Media Research Center is astounded that the network has apparently learned nothing.

"What in the world was CBS thinking?" he wonders. "Do they honestly want to be facing another lawsuit? In an alleged rush to edit down a lengthy interview to fit the show length, they cut out a particularly important part of Secretary Noem's answer explaining why father of the year ... needs to be deported," he tells American Family News. 

He says mainstream media outlets are on quite a roll.

"This is now the third issue recently where the liberal media have taken the 20 of the 80/20 issue: deporting criminal illegal aliens, cleaning up our streets, and supporting women's and girls' sports," the media watchdog observes.

CBS is certainly aligned with Garcia's lawyers.

Attorneys for Abrego Garcia have asked a federal judge to issue a gag order preventing Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi from making what they call "baseless public attacks" against their client. 

DHS responded to the request by pointing out that if Abrego Garcia did not want to be mentioned by the Secretary of Homeland Security, "then he should not have entered our country illegally and committed heinous crimes."

Have you ever wondered why the Leftist media and the Leftist movement have identified themselves with protecting and advancing lawlessness?

A DHS official recently told The Hill, "The media's sympathetic narrative about this criminal illegal alien has completely fallen apart, yet they continue to peddle his sob story."

In a statement on Sunday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said CBS “deceptively” edited the secretary’s answers, cutting the purpose of her interview out of the part that aired on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”

“This morning, I joined CBS to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia,” Noem said in a statement. “Instead, CBS shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety.”

CBS News, however, maintains that the interview was edited to fit its allotted time slot in the hour-long broadcast and that the full interview was published online.

“Secretary Noem’s ‘Face The Nation’ interview was edited for time and met all CBS News standards,” a spokesperson for CBS News said in a statement to The Hill. “The entire interview is publicly available on YouTube, and the full transcript was posted early Sunday morning at CBSNews.com.”

Noem’s accusation, they say, is the latest example of the administration’s ongoing feud with CBS and its parent company, Paramount.

The DHS statement includes other sections of the CBS interview that reportedly did not air live on Sunday morning.

Takeaway

Here are some key ways the news media can mislead the public:

• Sensationalism and Emotional Manipulation:

Stories may be worded and selected to provoke strong emotions like anger, sadness, or fear, leading to a biased or emotionally loaded impression rather than a neutral one. This creates an emotional shortcut, making people more susceptible to believing misinformation. 

• Repetition:

Repeating false information or claims, even if eventually debunked, can create familiarity and make the information seem more true and easier to recall. 

• Misinformation and Disinformation:

Misinformation is false or inaccurate information that is spread, sometimes without malicious intent. 

Disinformation is intentionally deceptive information spread to mislead for political gain or other purposes. 

• Partisan Bias and Intentional Misrepresentation:

Some news outlets and individuals intentionally spread misleading content to influence voters, policy-makers, or to advance a specific political agenda. 

• Focus on Personalities over Substance:

Media may focus on the manipulators and superficial aspects of stories rather than complex issues, which can shift perceptions and change reality, even if no substantive issue is at stake. 

• Mimicking Legitimate Sources:

False or misleading websites and fake personas are created to look like reputable news sources, gaining legitimacy to spread their content. 

Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Bold. Be Prayerful.