Brian Stelter

Brian Stelter

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The bulk of tonight's @CBSEveningNews was taken up by the Pete Hegseth interview – his first about the attack inside Venezeula, and his first on CBS ever. I'm told Hegseth was booked by Bari Weiss personally.

🙋‍♂️ I wrote for @VanityFair for a couple years. The fact-checking process is INTENSE. Editors and fact-checkers probe your sourcing, your framing, your quotes. Thus Susie Wiles knew this story was coming and knew the quotes were legit. She can object to "context" but not quotes.

Ari Cohn, counsel at @TheFIREorg, reacts: "The government pressured ABC — and ABC caved. The timing of ABC's decision, on the heels of the FCC chairman’s pledge to the network to “do this the easy way or the hard way,” tells the whole story. Another media outlet withered under

This just in from @WSJ parent Dow Jones: "We have full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reporting, and will vigorously defend against any lawsuit."

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