Monumental Media Malpractice: CBS Deceptively Edits Sec. Kristi Noem Interview

Posted • August 31, 2025: Sometimes, the legacy media's bias is so open, so shameless, that it's jaw-dropping. It's been this way since the Nixon years, when we watched on cumbersome tube televisions (as the youngest, I was always the kid who had to get up and change the channel) as the news programs took an almost gleeful tone at President Nixon's troubles. The rise of the internet just made matters worse; while we got some balance with the rise of the alternative media, like this site, the legacy media abandoned any pretext of objectivity. Case in point: Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, on Sunday, appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation," and they did an absolutely shameless edit of her statement about the illegal alien, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. —— Secretary Kristi Noem @Sec_Noem: “This morning, I joined CBS to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Instead, CBS shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety. Watch for the part of my interview that CBS tried to cover up.”

Note that the first statement, the part CBS aired, gave you a small piece of the "what." They left all of the "why" on the cutting-room floor. And there is a lot of "why" there. This is journalistic malpractice of the first order. Oh, it's a near-certainty that, if called on this, CBS will claim that all interviews are edited for time (probably true) and that only unimportant information is cut (demonstrably false). They will also claim that political bias is not a part of any editing calls (laughably false). What "Face the Nation" has done here is to obfuscate an important issue of the day. This case is just one of many where the Trump administration is trying to move illegal aliens out of the country, which the left and the legacy media (but I repeat myself) are pulling out all the stops to halt any repatriation. CBS, in this instance, deprived its viewers of critical information, in this case, namely, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal background.

He's an alleged thug, pervert, and wife beater in addition to being an illegal alien, and any honest news organization would present all this information, so their viewers could make an informed decision. But then, it's been some years since CBS was anything like an honest news organization.

RedState: Monumental Media Malpractice: CBS Deceptively Edits Sec. Kristi Noem Interview
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/08/31/monumental-media-malpractice-cbs-deceptively-edits-sec-kristi-noem-interview-n2193446
Twitchy: Edit-Palooza! Kristi Noem Shares Part of 'Face the Nation' Interview About Abrego Garcia CBS Chopped
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/09/01/edit-palooza-kristi-noem-shares-part-of-face-the-nation-interview-about-abrego-garcia-cbs-chopped-n2418240