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| | ==Distorted coverage== | | ==Distorted coverage== |
| − | *CBS used a picture from President Trump’s “Latino’s for Trump” event as a manipulative picture to showcase Joe Biden’s Latino outreach effort in Miami.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/16/fake-news-caught-again-cbs-uses-photo-from-latinos-for-trump-as-image-for-biden-latino-outreach-in-miami/</ref> | + | *CBS used a picture from [[President Trump]]’s “Latino’s for Trump” event as a manipulative picture to showcase Joe Biden’s Latino outreach effort in Miami.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/16/fake-news-caught-again-cbs-uses-photo-from-latinos-for-trump-as-image-for-biden-latino-outreach-in-miami/</ref> |
| | *CBS News used footage of the “worst hit” hospital in Bergamo, [[Italy]] purporting it to be a report about the coronavirus outbreak in [[New York]].<ref>https://summit.news/2020/03/30/cbs-news-uses-footage-of-worst-hit-hospital-in-italy-while-describing-new-york-coronavirus-outbreak/</ref> | | *CBS News used footage of the “worst hit” hospital in Bergamo, [[Italy]] purporting it to be a report about the coronavirus outbreak in [[New York]].<ref>https://summit.news/2020/03/30/cbs-news-uses-footage-of-worst-hit-hospital-in-italy-while-describing-new-york-coronavirus-outbreak/</ref> |
| | *CBS News claimed [[George W. Bush]] went [[AWOL]] from his [[National Guard]] duty during the [[Vietnam War]], but the documents it relied on to make this accusation were later found to be forged. News Anchor [[Dan Rather]] was forced into retirement over the scandal. | | *CBS News claimed [[George W. Bush]] went [[AWOL]] from his [[National Guard]] duty during the [[Vietnam War]], but the documents it relied on to make this accusation were later found to be forged. News Anchor [[Dan Rather]] was forced into retirement over the scandal. |
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| | ==Anchors and Reporters== | | ==Anchors and Reporters== |
| − | *In the 1950s Edward R. Murrow worked for CBS News and famously criticized Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]]. | + | *In the 1950s [[Edward R. Murrow]] worked for CBS News and famously criticized Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]]. |
| | *In the 1960s, news anchor [[Walter Cronkite]] (the "most trusted man in America") publicly opposed U.S. military support for South Vietnam in the [[Vietnam War]]. | | *In the 1960s, news anchor [[Walter Cronkite]] (the "most trusted man in America") publicly opposed U.S. military support for South Vietnam in the [[Vietnam War]]. |
| | *[[Bernard Redmont]], CBS News Moscow and Paris Bureau Chief during the Vietnam War was a "known [[KGB|Soviet agent]]." <ref>FBI Silvermaster file [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster062.pdf Vol. 62, pgs. 1 - 31]</ref> | | *[[Bernard Redmont]], CBS News Moscow and Paris Bureau Chief during the Vietnam War was a "known [[KGB|Soviet agent]]." <ref>FBI Silvermaster file [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster062.pdf Vol. 62, pgs. 1 - 31]</ref> |