Student journalist Santiago Campos used part of his acceptance speech after winning the Mike Wallace Memorial Scholarship at the News Emmys to call out the direction CBS News has recently headed, saying that it “stains the legacy of Mike Wallace”—and people are applauding.
By Peter Karleby
A student journalist is getting thunderous applause after bravely lambasting CBS’s capitulation to the Trump regime during his acceptance speech at the News Emmys.
Santiago Campos, a senior at District of Columbia International School in DC, was awarded the Mike Wallace Memorial Scholarship, created in honor of the legendary CBS journalist of the same name.
Campos, after being presented his award by CBS’s Scott Pelley, thanked the network for its gift but then quickly pivoted to calling out the appalling direction the network has taken since Trump re-took office last year.
Nearly every American media network has bent the knee to Trump to some degree, but none more than CBS, which has turned into something akin to state media since being taken over by right-wing propagandist and Trump acolyte Bari Weiss.
Campos, standing before a room full of the most powerful people in news, plainly called this what it is: a “stain” on Wallace’s legacy and journalism itself.
Campos called out in particular the network’s slant in favor of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying:
“While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to also acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship…”
“…So, if at any time you hesitate to utter the word genocide or remain silent in the face of blatant lies. Remember to ask yourself, Who is this for?”
There’s little doubt of Weiss’s answer to that question—it’s “for” Donald Trump. But most of those who remain at the network since Weiss’s takeover once had reputations as some of the most august journalists in the country.
There are blaring signs that that is changing: CBS’s ratings have plummeted since Weiss’s takeover, which has seen both the network’s morning news show CBS Mornings and CBS Nightly News take decidedly more Trump-friendly stances. (snip-a bit MORE)
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Hi. Thank you for posting this. A free and open press providing reality based nonpolitcalized news creates an informed public. Our founding fathers were big believers in a free and open press, using it constantly to write letters to editors and opinion pieces. They felt that the public should be involved and informed with what the new government was doing and wanting to do. They were appaled at the restrictions the English king was putting on the spreading of the information of the day. In the authoritarian playbook guide manual one of the first things to do is to take over the press, malign the press, make the people suspect the press is lying to them, and get the people to distrust the press. In his first term at the start tRump was asked why he attacked the press so hard, he replied it was to get the people to distrust anything bad the press wrote or said about him. In the case of the US tRump couldn’t do what has been done in other strongman authoritarian countries and take over all news agencies and make them push the propaganda of the state. So he needed other wealthy sycophants who wanted a white nationalist wealthy owned country where only those with immense wealth had rights to do it for him. These billionaire oligarchs are buying up all the media and have been for a decade. The goal is not to inform the public or to report the facts but to instead shape reality to that favoritable to the wealthy in charge. This started with the misnamed Fox News and continues at an incredible pace in the US today. These people force those presenting the information to lie, distort, misinform, and to push political positions outside of reality onto the public. And the majority of the public is so stressed and struggling to survive that they don’t have the time or energy to look for the truth and understand the reality of what is happening as they struggle just to survive another day in a class war fare society that keeps the lower 70% of the population impoverished to support the ever raising wealth of the ruling class. Hugs
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