Why Do I Defend CBS When People Lump It in With NBC?
Because I watch the Evening News. Because of reporters like Sharyl Attkisson and Lara Logan.
Because they DO reports like this, consistently.
CBS: WH ‘Roughed Up By Its Own Pay Equity Rhetoric’
…”The White House is getting, as you indicated Norah, roughed up by its own pay equity rhetoric,” reported Major Garrett. “In an analysis of White House salaries, which nobody here disputes, shows that the median income of female staffers is 88 percent of that of male staffers.”
“Now the study also showed that men and women with the same White House jobs earn exactly the same salary. Now the White House said its gender pay gap is tied to job experience, education, and hours worked among other factors. This matters because those explanations, according to the Labor Department, explain a good deal of the gender pay gap nationally. The big difference in these stories: When President Obama discusses this issue nationally, he doesn’t mention those other work variables, only the broad figure, that 77 cents for every dollar is what women earn compared to men,” said Garrett.
“When the factors that the White House used to defend its gender pay gap are used nationally, the Labor Department says the difference in median wages between men and women shrinks to about 5 cents to 7 cents on the dollar.”
There is no denying a liberal bias at the network, but it is NOT the days of Dan Rather using fake memos to scuttle a presidency. Scott Pelley’s evening broadcast is hard news FROM THE START (why we left the insipid, puling and mewling Diane Sawyer led World News Tonight after THIRTY-FIVE YEARS…) and they can surprise you with the level presentations on whatever should have been purely a lefty slant.
Not a wasted, tiny half-hour of anyone’s time, PLUS you get the incomparable Steve Hartman to boot, with stories you won’t see anywhere.
Watch and tell me if your heart doesn’t squeeze just a little…
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April 8, 2014 9:41 am
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Agreed! Scott Pelley is the only anchor worth watching, and God bless Steve Hartman… I didn’t think anyone could fill Kuralt’s shoes but he does an incredible job. I’ve seen this video before, but just watched it again with the sound off (at work), and still got teary-eyed. That’s the sign of a true newsman.
Nice to see someone publicly committing blatant acts of journalism.
A LITTLE? sheet, i’m a bawlin bowl of jelly right now.