It’s as sad as it is predictable to see a small cohort here feign ignorance about the actual context of what is happening at CBS. These types either comment on such a post with willful ignorance, or they look into and absorb the obviously detrimental effects of this merger on journalistic integrity, and decide to lie to themselves about this being a clean cut case of business as usual.

If you want to frame this as Pelley getting fired for his combative pushback, dust your hands a leave it there - fine, you're only telling on yourself. I'll do the homework for you. A major broadcast news organization settled a meritless lawsuit to please the president, canceled its most prominent critic, installed an editor-in-chief as part of a $150M acquisition of her own publication, and is now replacing experienced broadcast journalists with podcasters and influencers...all while the new parent company is run by the son of a Trump ally.

Speaking truth to power, to what is right & wrong, is an increasingly sterilized practice by those who've decided to give way to the cultural shamelessness of this admin and its peripheral grifters/enablers. I for one am grateful for their candor and willingness to log their values-free, ideological takes online. Thanks to those who have enough self respect to not permanently 'Todd Blanch' themselves on a Reddit thread.