Former CBS reporter Scott MacFarlane had an unintentionally funny defense of himself as he started his new job with the liberals at MeidasTouch. According to MacFarlane, joining the liberal outlet is actually a win for “independent journalism,” and that it is actually the people criticizing him who are the hypocrites because they are the ones with opinions.
MacFarlane read a post from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, “And there is a lot of chatter about the chatter here. People are giving their opinions of what they think of this new enterprise with MeidasTouch. The point of this is to be a reporter and not give opinions. So, it is noteworthy that there are people throwing opinions at us. It was the White House press secretary. It was the FCC chair. Let me read to you what they said. I do have it on my phone. The White House press secretary had an opinion, and the opinion starts with ‘Veteran CBS reporter joins far-left media company MeidasTouch as anchor, says they share the same ‘north star.’”
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