Golden Quisling of the Week — CBS News Sells Its Soul
If you thought MSNBC’s ritual groveling was bad, buckle up. This week’s Golden Quisling award goes to CBS News for a move so brazen it makes all the other corporate surrenders look quaint: they’ve hired a Trump‑aligned “loyalist” to “review” their coverage.
That’s not a typo. In the middle of the most aggressive government pressure campaign on the press in living memory, CBS decided to hand the keys to its editorial shop to a man whose résumé reads like a MAGA wish‑list. This is not some obscure producer or a token conservative analyst. This is someone whose job is literally to police CBS coverage for insufficient friendliness to the regime.
No one forced CBS to do this. The White House didn’t sign an executive order. The FCC didn’t issue a binding decree. CBS chose to capitulate — pre‑emptively — to a political strongman who has been openly threatening the press for years.
Why This Is Worse Than MSNBC
MSNBC at least tried to pretend its firing of Dowd was about “standards.” CBS is openly embedding a Trump operative into its newsroom under the fig leaf of “review.” It’s like hiring Joe McCarthy to run Standards & Practices during the Red Scare and calling it “balance.”
This isn’t about balance. It’s about sabotage from within. It signals to every CBS journalist, producer, and editor that their work will be scrutinized not for accuracy, but for ideological acceptability to Trumpworld. It is the institutionalization of self‑censorship.
The Golden Quisling Verdict
CBS News has turned itself into a test case for what happens when a legacy outlet voluntarily installs a regime minder in its own shop. It’s cowardice. It’s collaboration. It’s quisling behavior, pure and simple.
Congratulations, CBS News. You’ve managed in one hire to out‑coward MSNBC’s surrender and set a new bar for corporate treachery. Your Golden Quisling award is well‑earned.
