Click here for Robert Reich's Substack entry of February 12, 2026, entitled "The tragic end of CBS News," subtitled "Another trusted source of information bites the dust under Trump." It starts:
Producer Alicia Hastey departed CBS News Wednesday, saying the kind of work she came to do was “increasingly becoming impossible,” as stories were now evaluated “not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Whose ideological expectations was Hastey referring to? Would it be impertinent for me to suggest it’s the sociopath in the Oval Office?
Reich goes on to list several offenses that have already been committed by CBS News under recently appointed editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and her lightweight anchor, Tony Dokoupil, and references CBS's ties to Trump crony Larry Ellison and his son, David. Reich says:
Weiss doesn’t exactly report to Donald Trump, of course. Trump runs CBS News the way he runs Venezuela — with a widely-understood threat that he’ll wreak havoc if it doesn’t do what he wants.Reich concludes:
I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president. But that was when CBS News — the home of Edward R. Murrow (who also revealed to America the danger of Joe McCarthy) and Walter Cronkite — was independent of the rest of CBS. And when the top management of CBS felt they had responsibilities to the American public that transcended making money for CBS’s investors.
America can survive without a “60 Minutes” it can trust, just as we can survive without trustworthy editorial pages of the Washington Post — which Jeff Bezos has censored, and whose newsroom he just gutted.
But at some point, as Trump continues to repress criticism of him and his regime, American democracy is compromised beyond repair.
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