Controlling the Press: Attacks on Media and How Project 2025 Is Dismantling America’s Communications
About this episode
Mary Walsh discusses her experiences at CBS News and the implications of political influence on media reporting.
Send us Fan Mail Mary Walsh spent decades at CBS News. She started her career under Walter Cronkite. She survived ownership changes, ratings wars, the collapse of the network news business model, the rise of cable, the rise of streaming. Then in early 2025, she wrote a memo and walked out. Her reason: she had been told to aim CBS News’s reporting at “a particular part of the political spectrum.” She wrote: “Honestly, I don’t know how to do that.” That’s what the end of a free press looks like...
Topics covered
- media attacks
- free press
- political reporting
- CBS News
- Project 2025
- communications
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