CBS bulldozed its own watchdogs to run El-Sayed story despite no ‘smoking gun’: report

Summary

CBS News’ own standards watchdogs objected to a story suggesting that Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, but the network published it anyway, less than a week before Election Day. Zeteo reported that CBS’ standards and practices unit pushed back on the piece by Isabel Vincent, a longtime New York Post reporter who quietly joined the network last month. Two network sources said the main problem was the lack of a “smoking gun.” CBS News President Tom Cibrowski also had reservations, according to the report, but the story ran on Oct. 29. Days later, El-Sayed won…

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