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[–] Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

CBS news is about as reliable as Russia Today. I wonder if we can find any corroborating reports from someone outside the Trump sphere of enshitification.

[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net -4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

CBS is (correction: apparently, was) a reputable news outlet. If you want higher levels of independence, read the Guardian. They lag behind timewise since they take extra time to verify information.

Iran signals quick trials and executions for protesters in defiance of US warnings

The death toll in Iran has soared as authorities have carried out a brutal crackdown, with 2,571 people killed and more than 18,100 people arrested, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRNA). Already, the death toll from the two-week protest movement dwarfs any other in Iran since its 1979 revolution.

Protesters said there was a heavy security force on Wednesday as authorities prepared for a mass funeral of 300 security forces and civilians killed in demonstrations.

So, 2571 confirmed deaths, one mass funeral of 300 people in one city.

Hundreds of gunshot eye injuries found in one Iranian hospital amid brutal crackdown on protests

An ophthalmologist in Tehran has documented more than 400 eye injuries from gunshots in a single hospital, as overwhelmed medical staff struggle to cope with the toll of an increasingly violent crackdown on nationwide protests by Iranian authorities.

That's 400 gunshot eye injuries per one hospital, counted by an eye doctor. Those who got hit in other body parts likely aren't included. Assuming 5 hospitals per city, that's 2000 gunshot eye injuries per city. Assuming 180 cities and towns (likely leads to overestimation due to a large number of small towns), we would get 360 000 gunshot eye injuries per Iran. Being cautious, let's divide it by 10. A cautious estimate of 36 000 gunshot eye injuries per Iran could be warranted.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

CBS hasn't completely lost its credibility on all issues yet, but it's definitely lost a lot and is rapidly losing it. It was bought out by a right wing billionaire specifically to exert editorial control and the current head of their news was a right wing activist before this position

That said, I do believe their reporting on the violence against protesters in Iran. It's wholly within the behavior we've seen escalating over the past decade

There's definitely violence against the protesters there. The awfulizing and amplification of the issues in Iran are specifically to bolster this administration's desire to make war there.

Fascism need not always lie but instead selectively reveal pieces of reality and fudge the lines of credulity. There are ways to support Democratic revolutions that don't involve sending our military in.

The people of Iraq were also very grateful to see Saddam Hussein go but that doesn't mean that they wanted to lose hundreds of thousands of people to starvation and wanton destruction to satisfy our foreign policy goals.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

CBS is owned by Larry Ellison and run by Bari Weiss. Fanatical Zionists who are israel first.

[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thanks. You are the first one who pointed out their new owner, and new editor in chief.

For those who haven't heard yet:

In October 2025, Paramount Skydance bought The Free Press for $150 million and installed Weiss, who had no prior experience in broadcast journalism, as editor-in-chief of CBS News.[1][73][74] She reports to David Ellison, the head of Paramount Skydance.[75]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

CBS News is a mouthpiece of the regime