December 7, 2025

WHEN OBJECTIVITY LOOKS LIKE A SHIFT RIGHT TO LEGACY VOICES:

Connie Chung spoke in a recent interview about what she views as a troubling move inside CBS.

Her comments sounded less like a warning about journalism and more like proof of a mindset that decades of a system that convinced itself it had no bias at all have shaped.

Chung — on Thursday’s episode of “Pablo Torre Finds Out” — described CBS as a “whole different organization” from the time she worked there before calling out Shari Redstone, who sold her majority stake in parent company Paramount Global to David Ellison’s Skydance Media in a $8.4 billion deal over the summer.

“Their greed has caused the venerable CBS to actually disassemble, to crash into crumbles,” said Chung, the second woman ever to anchor a major U.S. nightly news program.

She proceeded to chuckle before name-dropping Bari Weiss, the conservative journalist who recently became CBS News’ new editor-in-chief.

“I don’t know what to call Bari Weiss, I just don’t know,” she said.

Her reaction tells a larger story; when a newsroom leans left for generations, any push toward balance feels like a conservative wind. The ground under that newsroom never moved; the center, voters, and America moved.

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During the Cronkite years, executives never admitted any bias — to them, old Walter’s declaration that Vietnam was lost was objective. Yet entire generations of academics, analysts, and former producers noted how often CBS mirrored Democratic Party priorities. Major stories received heavy coverage when they helped one side, but when they harmed one side, they received softer coverage.

These patterns created a worldview that felt safe to the people inside the building, one with limits, by rewarding the same political group and treating dissent as unserious.

Chung’s comments reflect that comfort; she doesn’t want a CBS that welcomes voices she never saw as credible, or one that moves to the center. She needs the CBS she knew.

Chung’s reluctance to accurately define Weiss, despite Weiss being remarkably open over the years about her biases, is classic example of DNC-MSM myopia. We can see it in reverse, here: MS NOW Host Stephanie Ruhle Melts Down After Charlamagne Tha God and Andrew Schulz Point Out Her Network’s Left-Wing Bias.

During the New York Times’ 2025 Dealbook Summit roundtable event, Stephanie Ruhle, host of MS NOW’s The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle, flipped out on Charlamagne the God after he said “when I turn on MSNBC [MS NOW] I know I’m going to get a left angle.” Ruhle, clearly bothered, interrupted her co-panelist and said “that’s an assumption.”

“That only continues that narrative, you know what you’re going to get here, you know what you’re going to get there,” Ruhle continued pushing back, “I challenge that. You don’t.”

“Oh that’s not true,” Charlamagne responded. “I know exactly what I’m going to get when I turn on Fox News. I know exactly what angles they’re going to come with. If I turn on MSNBC I know I’m getting a left angle.”

Comedian Andrew Schulz chimed in, asking Ruhle “are you shocked when you turned on MSNBC? Are you like ‘OH MY GOD! I didn’t see this take coming?’”

“Then I invite you to watch my show any night of the week,” Ruhle responded.

“We watch your show,” Schulz said shrugging his shoulders.

Why bother feign objectivity when you’re on the air at MSNBC (or as Ed Morrissey recently described it, M-SNOW)? The network has openly prided itself as being the leftist alternative to Fox News. Why not openly lean into your ideology? Particularly since Charlamagne and Schulz forced Ruhle to acknowledge that media designed to entertain and inform other worldviews actually exists.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

I WAS WONDERING THIS VERY SAME THING:

Posted at 2:10 pm by Glenn Reynolds

BASED FRANKLIN:

Posted at 1:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

PREY MORALITY:

Posted at 1:37 pm by Ed Driscoll

DAN HANNAN: Not all immigrants are equal.

Minnesota may be the single largest source of funds for the Somali terrorist organization al Shabaab. An investigation by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo of the Manhattan Institute found that schemes established in the state to provide healthcare, children’s services, and food distribution have been subjected to such gargantuan fraud that Minnesotan taxpayers may, in effect, be simultaneously funding several sides in Somalia’s civil war.

This is a reminder that not all cultures are equal. Minnesota‘s political structures were designed for Scandinavians, who are famously industrious, with a high level of social trust that has allowed them to sustain ambitious welfare programs with little abuse.

In the New World, as in the Old, they designed institutions that reflected their character. Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services program, which was supposed to provide housing for seniors, disabled people, and drug addicts, is a good example. With its client groups in mind, it was deliberately built to have “low barriers to entry” and “minimal requirements for reimbursement.”

It turns out that Somalis do not respond to such schemes in the way that Swedes do. Instead of simply over-claiming, as your unambitious American fraudster might, locals set up bogus companies to make fictitious claims running into hundreds of millions of dollars. Some of the money went on cars and holidays, but a chunk found its way to al Qaeda-aligned Islamists in Somalia, where remittances from overseas amount to a larger sum than the state budget.

As Kevin Williamson once wrote of Bernie Sanders, “Sanders is particularly taken with the case of Finland, which he holds up as a model of what a long-term commitment to democratic socialism can produce…A critic once asked Milton Friedman what he thought about the fact that Sweden has basically no poverty, and Friedman answered: We don’t have many poor Swedes in America, either.”

But perhaps we do have some in power who failed to project into the future where mass importation might lead:

Posted at 12:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

WORSE, THEY ACTIVELY HARM IT:

Posted at 9:34 am by Stephen Green

CHANGE: The Giant Awakes: The Worldwide Left Is Losing Its Grip. “Our future, as (legal) voters catch on to the disaster that is our drift into collectivism, is now no longer a longish line of five -year plans dictated and mismanaged by the leftist elite. Invariably those wet dreams were shown by experience to be almost universally destabilizing, to the point where I have often wondered in my writings if that destabilization was the only goal. The voters, who for the last 100 years or so have been far more conservative than anything either American party has coughed up, recognized the real problem long before those party establishments did.”

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

WATCH ME VIA ZOOM:  You can register here to watch my talk–“Why We Walk on Eggshells”– at Cornell University via Zoom.  The talk–which will be live and in person at Cornell’s Statler Hall in Ithaca, New York–takes place tomorrow–Monday at 5:30 p.m.  If you’re in the area, please come.

I checked out Ithaca’s weather this morning.  The expected low on Monday is just 8 degrees (though the high is expected to be a balmy 25).  I’ve been searching my bureau here in San Diego for a pair of woolen socks.  I’m not sure I’ve owned any since I lived in Chicago in the 1980s.

Posted at 7:44 am by Gail Heriot

OH, YEAH, AND IF YOU MISSED LAST NIGHT’S VERY LATE SHORT:  A Light In Time.

Posted at 7:28 am by Sarah Hoyt