1 Feb 2026 10:18 pm
Blackvegetable » 01 Feb 2026, 8:09 am » wrote: ↑ Weiss is not saying that CBS should lie. She is saying that CBS should present lies and truth as equivalent. That the journalist who documents an execution and the administration spokesman who calls it self-defense should be given equal weight. That “both sides” deserve representation, even when one side is simply making things up.
This is the false balance that has plagued American journalism for decades, but Weiss is taking it further. She is not just applying it to matters of opinion—should taxes be higher or lower, should we have more or less immigration—where reasonable people can disagree. She is applying it to matters of fact. Did the agents shoot a man who was trying to help someone? The footage says yes. The administration says no. Weiss says: let’s hear from both sides.
When you treat lies as one legitimate perspective among many, you are not being fair. You are being complicit. You are lending the authority of your institution to the project of deception. You are telling your audience that they cannot trust their own eyes, that reality is up for debate, that power gets to define what happened.
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There are the Eager and the Unwitting..
Some people (like you) aren't able to grasp that when a person puts themselves in harm's way, they might get harmed. There isn't any magic to that simple concept. Can they be made into martyrs for their brainwashing masters or not? That would be the only real success in a useless death. Try to make something out of it even if spin is the only way to do that. Between the paid agitators and paid useful idiots, there isn't really any loss to the country in the long run.