Ellison's firing of Scott Pelley seals an ideological takeover of once respected CBS

From my Facebook posting today. CBS, once the beacon of credible and traditional journalism, has a new meaning to its initials: Conservative BS. It was acquired by David Ellison, son of the founder of Oracle, a family of liogarch techies, and a vocal supporter of Trump. Since 2025, Ellison has set about to make it a voice of MAGA and Trump and the ideology of the right. No pretense of independent journalism there. The destruction of 60 Minutes, capped by the firing yesterday of an embittered Scott Pelley and the end of Stephen Colbert's show, was the bookend of a Trumpian plot that began in 2025 and was backed by the Trump-appointed loyalist head of the Federal Communications Commission, who approved the transaction. Ellison has cleaned house and made it clear that now CBS was going to be a media outlet that would not tolerate a bad word about their dear leader in the White House..FOX and MSNOW are on cable, and we know their perspectives. However, broadcast TV does not require you to pay to get it. It reaches not only cable viewers but also those who can access it through other non-cost methods and who may mistakenly believe the standards of journalism and equal time are still being observed. Ellison has turned the broadcast network into another dedicated MAGA voice, like.FOX cable. Cable is not required to be objective or even to adhere to equal-time requirements, as broadcast media did in the past. Cable, because viewers pay a bundle for getting to receive it, can find the views and slants they want. Broadcast media is free; however, it is available to all freely. Broadcast news and talk have been expected to permit a variety of viewpoints, though equal time enforcement is no longer. CBS's overt slant to one ideology has broken any trust that the news it delivers is objective and unbiased.