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The list of sins against journalism committed by The Free Press under her tutelage is too long to note here. But it includes a recent piece positing that the media, in reporting on the famine in Gaza, had unfairly used as examples of starving kids a couple of children who had other pre-existing conditions like cystic fibrosis. Thus had the media painted a distorted picture of the crisis. Only The Free Press dared to tell the truth: all those kids suffered from other diseases, so why is everyone being such a bunch of dicks about the Israeli Army starving them to death?

That’s the kind of hard-hitting journalism we can now expect to pop up on CBS, we guess. That is the person David Ellison, in a company-wide note on Monday, said “brings a passion for reaching broad audiences through rigorous, fact-based reporting and a relentless commitment to amplifying voices from all corners of the spectrum” to her new job.

All corners of the spectrum! From conservatives who think transgenderism is a liberal plot to let men use women’s bathrooms, to conservatives who want to see the National Guard put all immigrants on an ice floe and shove it out to sea? With zero recognition that the Venn diagram of those two groups is a perfect circle?

Ellison also told his staff that “trust and facts will remain our guiding principles.” Well, there’s a first time for everything, we guess!