NBC allowed a Republican viewpoint on their "Nightly News" to challenge the reigning fear and anxiety of Elon Musk seeking government efficiency and labor force reduction. Rep. James Comer expressed amusement at "Musk Derangement Syndrome."
The national media are now focusing a lot of their negative "news" energy on Elon Musk and his drive for government efficiency. CNN is upset about his messing with the Agency for International Development, and Jake Tapper lamented Elon opening "old wounds" with British grooming gangs raping little girls, which is a "distraction" for new prime minister Keir Starmer.
NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro brings the details. In addition to the U.K. struggles, there's the fight in D.C. over USAID (the Agency for International Development). Yet again, the legacy networks played up small leftist protests as if they represented public opinion as a whole. NBC anchor Lester Holt touted "Opposition to the billionaire's unprecedented access and authority, including to certain government systems continues to swell, with protests across the country."
These networks couldn't muster more than a few seconds to tens of thousands of protesters in the annual "March for Life," but put 100 bureaucrats on a D.C. sidewalk with their "No One Elected Musk" signs, and it's "swelling across the country."
As a result of Trump suing CBS News for the full video and transcript of the Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview, the FCC was granted the access, and sure enough, CBS sliced and diced the interview to make Harris look more concise in her answers than she actually was.
On CNN, Jake Tapper preached that to “settle the suit would be a white flag of surrender… the network of [veteran CBS broadcaster] Edward R. Murrow… saying, we will not speak truth to power. We will acquiesce to power at the expense of truth.” This is a little mind-boggling because CNN was just found liable for defamation in Florida for a piece on Tapper's show that clearly claimed an innocent man was a criminal (with his "black market" business evacuating Americans from Afghanistan).
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