The whole Coates thing is a fun chance to revisit the fact that the recording of the CBS News internal meeting about the interview was leaked to, and gleefully published by… The Free Press.

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(Not that this is news for Crawford, who you may remember from her supporting role in defending that Ta-Nehisi Coates interview, and pushing for the network to stop using language preferred by trans people.) www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/c... nypost.com/2026/01/06/m...

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The thing about Jan Crawford’s “diatribe” and CNN’s “heated” is, we all could see the whole exchange with our own eyes, but it suggests they’ve fucked up a lot of coverage of things we couldn’t see.

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RIP to Sgt Patterson and this is grim to observe but it's genuinely a perfect reflection of how seriously Americans actually take the idea of stuff like "Salute to the Armed Forces" that a member of the armed forces can literally die in front of them and they're like "gotta play the game tho"

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