Randy Hall worked up some crocodile tears in a May 29 NewsBusters post:
CBS is in trouble. The network — including its news and entertainment divisions — has faced many financial hurdles over the past few years, which eventually led to a merger with the Viacom media conglomerate last December. Even though that combination gave the company access to more resources, the business has still had to deal with financial hardships, which led to a round of restructuring and layoffs on Tuesday.
According to The Wrap, this includes “veteran White House reporter Mark Knoller, Pentagon reporter Cami McCormick and correspondent Dean Reynolds,” among others.
How do we know that Hall’s sympathy for one of the MRC’s favorite targets is fake? He went on to forward the idea that “other, more highly paid journalists, could have sacrificed for their fellow journalists.”
Hall’s post might lead you to think that the MRC genuinely cares about the plight of CBS and its employees. It doesn’t. Remember that the MRC’s goal is to destroy all media that isn’t sufficiently right-wing. Remember how gleeful it was when Norah O’Donnell’s tenure as CBS Evening News anchor generated low-ish ratings.
The MRC hates CBS so much, it expressed joy over technical difficulties. Nicholas Fondacaro devoted an entire May 19 post to crowing about the “latest embarrassment” in which the Evening News couldn’t be broadcast due to technical issues, going on to mock the technical problem as “painfully ironic” because CBS promotes the newscast as “one voice you can turn to.”
This isn’t “media research” — this is a hateful attack for partisan reasons.