{"id":60185,"date":"2021-04-13T15:18:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T19:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=60185"},"modified":"2021-04-13T15:18:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T19:18:04","slug":"cbs-60-minutes-proves-to-run-utterly-fake-news-with-misleading-desantis-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=60185","title":{"rendered":"CBS 60 Minutes Proves To Run Utterly Fake News with Misleading DeSantis Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; panned for segment using viewer mail to justify DeSantis report: &#8216;This is embarrassing&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi claimed a &#8216;retired newsman&#8217; praised the report<\/h3>\n<p>By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0faced yet another round of backlash after airing a segment Sunday that appeared to use viewer mail to justify the previous week&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/60-minutes-accused-editing-exchange-desantis-sharyn-alfonsi\">\u00a0botched report<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida<\/a>\u00a0Republican Gov.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/ron-desantis\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi closed the broadcast by presenting &#8220;mail&#8221; the show received in response to the segment, which aired April 4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Viewers focused on an exchange with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at a press conference. Some viewers, including a retired newsman, applauded the story,&#8221; said Alfonsi, who did not\u00a0identi\u00a0which\u00a0&#8220;retired newsman&#8221; praised the reporting.<\/p>\n<p>She then read a letter from Nick Boryack of Florida, who wrote: &#8220;Ron DeSantis will continue to deny, refute &#8230; call your reporting a witch hunt &#8230; I can only hope &#8230; that you continue to investigate and expose the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Alfonsi then\u00a0acknowledged that &#8220;many more comments condemned our editing and reporting,&#8221; citing two letters condemning the &#8220;shameful biased reporting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1381404388690960387&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2F60-minutes-segment-viewer-mail-justify-ron-desantis-report&amp;sessionId=e951a25b4c777575627168278b1ac6a4212687b2&amp;siteScreenName=foxnews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1ead0c7%3A1617660954974&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1381404388690960387\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Critics were quick to blast the segment on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wonder why so few people trust the corporate media anymore?&#8221; Donald Trump Jr. sarcastically asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is embarrassing,&#8221; The Federalist publisher and Fox News contributor Ben Domenech reacted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who was the retired newsman? Please say Dan Rather,&#8221; New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz joked, referring to the disgraced &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; anchor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;We were able to trick some of our audience, but not everyone. Here are their letters to us\u2026'&#8221; Fourth Watch media critic Steve Krakauer quipped.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Journalists simply can&#8217;t admit when they make a mistake. Never. They&#8217;ll deny and deny until forced to do otherwise,&#8221; National Review contributor Pradheep J. Shanker wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Our outrageous and unethical reporting is actually ok because randos on the internet liked it&#8217;\u00a0has gotta be a new low for @60Minutes,&#8221; GOP strategist Matt Whitlock tweeted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" 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Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/60-minutes-segment-viewer-mail-justify-ron-desantis-report\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/60-minutes-segment-viewer-mail-justify-ron-desantis-report<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; panned for segment using viewer mail to justify DeSantis report: &#8216;This is embarrassing&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}