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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.

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/th ... journalist

 
There are the Eager and the Unwitting..

Blackvegetable » 01 Feb 2026, 8:09 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 8:09 am

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.

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/th ... journalist

There are the Eager and the Unwitting..

And then there's you, the meager and the witless.....sounds like the title of a soap opera or the life and times of a failed human.

This is what Weiss means by “political friction.” She wants CBS to be a battleground where truth and lies fight to a draw. She wants the audience to come away uncertain, confused, unable to distinguish reporting from propaganda. She wants them to throw up their hands and say: who can know what’s really true? 

That uncertainty is the product. That confusion is the goal.

ibid.

And the resulting vagueness lends itself fabulously to the "Slogan&Narrative&Meme" Rhetorical Stylings of MAGA.

It is so effective that Grafty can punish Brazil for its trade surplus with the US - even when they are actually at deficit. 
 

RebelGator » 01 Feb 2026, 8:13 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 8:13 am

And then there's you, the meager and the witless.....sounds like the title of a soap opera or the life and times of a failed human.

But I'm not ashamed of what I read...

This is how institutions die. Not all at once, but by inches. The correspondent who knows the story was softened but needs the job. The producer who sees the contributor list and understands what it means but has a mortgage. The editor who remembers what journalism used to be but watches the layoffs and keeps quiet. 


Each individual compromise is understandable. Together, they constitute surrender. 


And Weiss knows this. She is counting on it. She is betting that the economic pressure, the career pressure, the exhaustion of fighting every day will wear them down. That eventually, the journalists who remain will be the ones willing to produce the product she wants. The ones with principles will leave or be pushed out. The institution will be hollowed from within. 


This is the playbook. It has worked before. It is working now.

Ibid.

He could be talking about a lot of professions.
 

Blackvegetable » 01 Feb 2026, 8:18 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 8:18 am

But I'm not ashamed of what I read...

But you should be about what you write.

RebelGator » 01 Feb 2026, 8:26 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 8:26 am

But you should be about what you write.

You go ahead and try to prosecute that argument...

You've run from every other opportunity.....because we both know you don't have the bricks for that job.
 

What do we do?

First, we name it. We do not pretend that Weiss is engaged in a good-faith effort to improve journalism. She is not. She is engaged in a project of epistemological warfare, and CBS News is her beachhead.

 Fourth, we refuse the frame. When someone tells you that journalism is just another form of opinion, that truth is just one perspective among many, that reality is whatever you can get people to believe—you tell them no. You insist that there are facts. You insist that documentation matters. You insist that a nurse was shot ten times in the back and that this is not a matter of perspective.

The epistemological crisis is the foundation of all the other crises. If we cannot agree on what is true, we cannot act together. If we cannot trust any institution to tell us what is happening, we are atomized, isolated, helpless. If reality is up for grabs, power wins by default.

Bari Weiss understands this. That is why she is doing what she is doing.

**** you, Bari. I say this on behalf of those who want to say it, but currently find the courage escaping them.

ibid.

 
 

Blackvegetable » 01 Feb 2026, 8:09 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 8:09 am

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.

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/th ... journalist

 
There are the Eager and the Unwitting..

 

Damn, Too Far another week of avg close to 100 posts a day.  Is your ex here ordering you around?  You are down slightly.

Remember, payback is a bitch.  Is your ex?    

Blackvegetable » 01 Feb 2026, 8:09 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 8:09 am

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.

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/th ... journalist

There are the Eager and the Unwitting..

Yep!! 

AS ALWAYS, you COMMIES want a ONE-SIDED STORY that pushes a LEFTIST/COMMUNIST narrative and the OTHER SIDE BE DAMNED!!

Now who is the FASCISTS AGAIN??

 

Beekeeper » 01 Feb 2026, 8:52 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 8:52 am

Yep!! 

AS ALWAYS, you COMMIES 

Take a hike.

Blackvegetable » 01 Feb 2026, 8:09 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 8:09 am

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..

So the Earth is actually flat now?   It sounds like CBS is going to get folded up in the Sole Result Origami Chasm with that attitude.

To Tell the Truth or To Tell The Lies...  You Decide 2026.
 

Huey » 01 Feb 2026, 8:51 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 8:51 am

Damn, Too Far another week of avg close to 100 posts a day.  Is your ex here ordering you around?  You are down slightly.

Remember, payback is a bitch.  Is your ex?  

WTF?

Blackvegetable » 01 Feb 2026, 9:10 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 9:10 am

Huey » 01 Feb 2026, 8:51 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 8:51 am

Damn, Too Far another week of avg close to 100 posts a day.  Is your ex here ordering you around?  You are down slightly.

Remember, payback is a bitch.  Is your ex?  

WTF?

 

On your threads I have as much respect for thread integrity as you do on the threads of other posers.  

Your post count was down slightly last week. Not much, but down.  Is your ex here?  

Blackvegetable » 01 Feb 2026, 8:53 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 8:53 am

Take a hike.

Nope!!

YOU GO **** YOURSELF!!

Posting some incoherent drivel from some morally "superior" asshole doesn't make you philosophically superior.

It makes you a LEMMING of stupidity.

AS Brock describes himself....

Mike Brock @mikebrock
Ex-tech exec, now a reluctant Cassandra. Deeply unfashionable. Penning dispatches from democracy's peril at notesfromthecircus.com. 2+2=4, even when power insists otherwise.

In other words, another TEAT SUCKING PIECE OF **** that thinks he can manipulate the weak minded into some frenzy of hate!!

That would be you, DICKSUCKER!!
 

Beekeeper » 01 Feb 2026, 9:29 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 9:29 am

Nope!!


 

I insist.

Blackvegetable » 01 Feb 2026, 9:33 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 9:33 am

I insist.

You can take your insist and shove it up your ***, PISSFACE!!

You don't make the rules here. NOR do you have any intellectual superiority over ANYONE, MORON!!

Now, GO **** YOURSELF AS I DEMANDED you to do!!

     
 

Beekeeper » 01 Feb 2026, 9:36 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 9:36 am

You can

See?
 
 

Huey » 01 Feb 2026, 9:16 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 9:16 am

On your threads I have as much respect for thread integrity as you do on the threads of other posers.  

Your post count was down slightly last week. Not much, but down.  Is your ex here?

Tiny, please..

Stop making excuses for being so ****.
 

Blackvegetable » 01 Feb 2026, 9:40 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 9:40 am

Huey » 01 Feb 2026, 9:16 am » wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2026, 9:16 am

On your threads I have as much respect for thread integrity as you do on the threads of other posers.  

Your post count was down slightly last week. Not much, but down.  Is your ex here?

Tiny, please..

Stop making excuses for being so ****.
 

 

But is she here? You have been bringing it up that she was coming to town.  Have you resolved the paternity of your kid yet?