LATERAL MOVE: CBS abortion reporter joins Planned Parenthood.
Almost instantly upon resigning from CBS News, Smith’s Twitter feed was full of dedicated pro-abortion narratives about fetal heartbeat bills. While at CBS News, she framed Texas’s abortion law as the “so-called heartbeat” bill.
Smith had already adopted the language and euphemisms of the pro-abortion Left while posing as a neutral reporter simply sitting down for interviews. As National Review also notes, “When Alexis McGill-Johnson became acting president of Planned Parenthood last summer, her first public interview went to — who else? — Kate Smith, who opened their conversation with a broad smile and a hearty, ‘Congratulations on the new job!'”
The issue at hand is not abortion. There are plenty of other talented experts and writers on the subject of life and ending life. Rather, it is how Smith’s move sheds light on the often extreme internal bias of journalists. Planned Parenthood has spent enormous blood and treasure locking up the national media in its favor, once even offering the Maggie Awards for journalists. These recognize “exceptional achievement by the media in presentation and coverage of reproductive rights and health care issues, including contraception, sexuality education, teen pregnancy, abortion, and international family planning.” The awards were terminated early in 2015.
Every branch of the MSM has revolving doors, but there’s something about Democratic Party operatives with Chyrons leaving CBS that causes them to go to extremes at their next gig:
● Walter Cronkite pledges “That’s the way it is” every night on air, before spending his dotage championing the glories of one-world government.
● Dan Rather swears he’s completely objective, before flaming out with RatherGate and afterwards, hosts fundraisers for far-left Nation magazine.
● Katie Couric leaves CBS and then gets caught falsely editing an anti-Second Amendment documentary.