Even in death, Jeffrey Epstein has friends in high places.
As it turns out, it’s not just ABC News that protected him years ago by killing an exposé into his monstrous predation. Now, CBS News is in on the game. The rival network, or should I say colluding partner, just fired a staffer who had previously worked at ABC, who allegedly poached and made public the damning footage of anchor Amy Robach confessing that her higher-ups spiked the story.
That’s right: ABC outed a whistleblower for retaliation, and CBS obliged by retaliating. Her act of journalistic heroism got her fired — surely permanently — from television network news, which is fitting in a strange way.
The corporate media has made a calculated decision to lean in on their complicity in protecting powerful sex predators. You could even say they’ve embraced their roles as “enemies of the people.”
Integrity comes at a steep price. For every anonymous ABC staffer willing to sacrifice herself for the truth, there are dozens of millionaire news executives and media stars happy to throw such people and all their work under the bus. For every media reporter such as Yashar Ali who has investigated the malfeasance of ABC and CBS News with unabashed fervor, there are entire reporting teams at CNN who prefer to vilify conservatives for their anger at the media corruption that made Epstein’s infamy possible.
Yes, that’s right. If you get your news from CNN, then Brian Stelter would have you believe the real villains of this story aren’t the powerful media executives protecting a predator, but conservatives “using it to stoke hatred of the media writ large.”
Annnd here’s Stelter defending ABC. The media janitor again suggested WE the people are the problem -> “Tuesday’s video clip caused widespread outrage, particularly on the right, with many commenters [sic] using it to stoke hatred of the media writ large.” https://t.co/3jQKVwubJi pic.twitter.com/LgGreL7Ucw
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2019
And then, after Ali’s investigation into the aftermath of the video produced the explosive scoop that ABC was looking to retaliate against the whistleblower and silence the scandal, Stelter’s so-called media newsletter didn’t even mention the story.
Brian Stelter’s newsletter does not include anything about the new info on ABC News and Epstein. pic.twitter.com/E0xRJl5yL2
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) November 7, 2019
That ex-ABC (and now ex-CBS) staffer ought to be the star guest of every rival network. But she knows that CNN, MSNBC, and NBC, all of whom also did not cover Epstein’s story, won’t have her back. They’re not competitors to ABC; they are colluders. They are a cartel to protect the powerful.
NBC News silenced Ronan Farrow’s reporting into Harvey Weinstein to protect Matt Lauer. It likely fired Megyn Kelly in retaliation for her coverage of Lauer’s serial predation.
We know the media found ample time to question Hillary Clinton’s lackey Nick Merrill about his boss’s diatribe against Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii. But not a single reporter had the stones to follow up on Farrow’s groundbreaking claim that Merrill himself, acting on Clinton’s behalf, attempted to shut down Farrow’s reporting about Weinstein.
And we’ve known for years that even after Epstein left prison for “soliciting a prostitute” (also known as “raping a 14-year-old child”), celebrity journalists such as George Stephanopoulos and Katie Couric still curried favor with him, alongside other notables such as Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz. We now know that said favor came with protection.
There are still heroes such as Farrow, Ali, and the fired CBS staffer, hiding within the cowardly ranks of the press. But with friends like the executives who run our media, who needs enemies of the people?
