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CBS News effort called a 'blatant sham' by expert: 'Yet another embarrassment'
CBS’s Ombudsman Was Never Meant to Answer to the PublicAccountability as Stage PropCBS News has wrapped a simple reality in the language of reform: the people with power chose a reviewer who answers upward, not outward, and then sold that arrangement as public accountability. Margaret Sullivan’s complaint is not that the ombudsman has been imperfect. It is that the role was built to be performative from the start.Kenneth R. Weinstein, tapped by the network’s Trump-aligned new owners, is not presented here as an independent check on editorial power. He is described as a right-leaning think…
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