CROSSPOST: STEVE SCHMIDT: Bari Weiss killed CBS News in 76 days
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Edward R. Murrow
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Central figure in the article, whose journalism career and ethical standards are contrasted with modern media. Most readers know his name but not the depth of his WWII reporting from Vienna and Buchenwald or his later confrontation with McCarthyism.
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Theresienstadt Ghetto
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The article discusses Terezin/Theresienstadt as the Nazi 'show camp' used to deceive the Red Cross. The full history of this propaganda effort and the fate of its prisoners provides crucial historical context.
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Anschluss
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The article references Murrow's first live broadcast during the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. Understanding this pivotal event explains why Murrow chartered a plane to Vienna and sets the stage for his career covering fascism's rise.
Long story short: a 40-year-old woman named Bari with an Ivy League pedigree, who maintains a constant spotlight on her identity as a Jewish lesbian snuffed out a story about a concentration camp on CBS News 80 years after Edward R. Murrow’s broadcast from Buchenwald. Time erases memories for individuals, but also collectively, within societies…
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It would have astonished Americans living in 1885 that the most famous American in the world, Ulysses Grant, who saved the Union, would at best ring a vaguely familiar bell for some Americans just two lifetimes after his death.
The same is true of another titan — the American broadcast journalist Edward Roscoe Murrow, who died in 1965. His news values at CBS were murdered in 2025 by a woman born in 1984 and a boy with a wealthy daddy born in 1983.
Pity.
Murrow was a truth-teller and a serious man in a world gone mad and consumed by lies.
His was a voice that the American people could trust in a moment of enormous consequence — just like they can trust the voice of Sharyn Alfonsi today.
The collapse of trust in the American media is a result of the business decisions that destroyed Murrow’s ethic by the corporate executives he warned about with tremendous prescience. Before then, when broadcast journalism was in its infancy, there was only possibility.
Many people say that the following is the greatest news broadcast in history.
There were no pictures that accompanied the report. Only Murrow’s words.
Close your eyes and listen to them. You will quickly move past the scratchiness of the recording, and be transported back to a relatively recent moment at a profoundly evil place.
Below is Murrow’s report from Buchenwald.
This is where the fascist road led.
The man describing the scene had chartered a plane to Vienna seven years earlier, as the Nazi Army rolled into Austria during the Anschluss of 1938.
The justification for the Anschluss was a doctrine of racial purity that sought to unify Aryans and the Germanic people around a thousand-year Reich that promised freedom, prosperity and national greatness. It would protect them from the hordes of subhumans ...
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