CBS bashed after rolling over for Trump's Pentagon: 'Democratic erosion on TV'

CBS News' decision to give three separate interviews to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as the Pentagon essentially wiped out its press corps and replaced it with a group of far-right bloggers and Trump loyalists is indefensible, wrote Colby Hall in a scathing opinion piece for Mediaite — and it portends a further weakening of the independent press.

"Hegseth’s appearance on CBS Evening News followed the Trump administration’s move to sharply restrict access for credentialed Pentagon reporters...