Two Rare Moments of Honesty in Media Coverage of Iran
On tape, he acknowledged that his producer had texted him not to focus on that aspect of the scene. “They don’t want us to focus on this.”
“Well, I am.”
For years, the legacy press has perfected the art of reframing anything that might reflect well on President Trump’s foreign policy. If there’s visible support, minimize it. If there’s gratitude, bury it. If the optics complicate the script, move the camera. Sunday, for once, that didn’t fully work.
Let’s look here at home, in the US, in Texas:
BREAKING – A CBS reporter in Austin, Texas, is being massively praised after refusing to follow a text message from his superior telling him not to focus on a massive crowd praising President Trump’s actions in Iran.
“They don’t want us to focus on this.”
“Well, I am.” pic.twitter.com/Pll2AJgXjp
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) March 1, 2026
A CBS Austin reporter stood in front of a large crowd at the Texas Capitol openly praising President Trump’s actions in Iran. That alone was notable. What made it remarkable was what happened next. On tape, he acknowledged that his producer had texted him not to focus on that aspect of the scene.
“They don’t want us to focus on this.”
“Well, I am.”
That is not spin. That is not interpretation. That is a reporter saying, in real time, that he was being nudged away from a narrative complication and choosing to stay with what viewers could plainly see. A pro-Trump crowd reacting positively to the strike was news. He covered it anyway. In an era of careful framing and selective emphasis, that kind of refusal stands out.
Even international media could not change the narrative:
🚨 BREAKING: Sky News Australia anchor just went FULL VIRAL worldwide with her EPIC live farewell to the dead Ayatollah Khamenei, straight in Persian!
She looked right into the camera and unloaded:
“A message to the late Supreme Leader: You son of a b*tch, BURN IN HELL!” pic.twitter.com/ZoO3NzmPvA
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) March 1, 2026
A Sky News Australia anchor closed her editorial with a direct message to the late Supreme Leader, delivered in Persian and ending with a blunt condemnation. No throat-clearing about nuance. No ritual reminder that “both sides” have grievances. Just a moral judgment about a regime whose record speaks for itself.
It was sharp. It was unapologetic. And it cut through the fog that so often surrounds commentary about Iran’s theocracy.
Even here at home, some coverage has been forced to acknowledge what is happening beyond the Beltway echo chamber. As RedState put it:
While absorbing the military details of the largely one-sided strikes on Iran’s odious leadership, we shouldn’t forget what this is all about: Liberating the Iranian people from the rule of a gang of murderous Bronze-age barbarians. That’s happening.
The Iranian people, at home and abroad, are celebrating, and not even the liberal legacy media can fail to take note of it.
That is the larger story pressing through the cracks. Crowds in Texas openly praising the strike. Iranians in diaspora communities expressing gratitude rather than fury. Commentators unwilling, at least in isolated moments, to sanitize their verdict on a brutal regime.
No, the legacy media have not suddenly converted. But on a day of historic consequence, reality proved harder to suppress. Two moments. Two bright spots. And a reminder that sometimes the truth forces its way onto the screen anyway.
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Wait a second. Sky News as far as I know is at least right leaning. The CBS Austin reporter is different but I think he sank his career.
Meanwhile check out the obits for the Butcher of Tehran in the Washington Post and even the Wall Street journal and you’ll see its business as usual,
Are they citing this Satanic turd as a “religious scholar”?
Give credit where credit is due. The deceased, Islamofascist/terrorist piece of excrement was an “austere” religious scholar.
He also had an easy smile and liked Persian poetry. And he was referred to as avuncular. These reporters are the worst of the worst.
Rita is about as based as they get.
Now the CBS dude in Austin going off script… that’s a shocker.
Maybe something in the background shaped his perception- like the murder of 3 by a Muslim terrorist.
Sky News Australia has been a bastion of light for some time and Rita Panahi has been at the forefront of highlighting the mental illness that is leftism for ages. They are an anomaly in the news world dominated by leftism!
Bari will have his back and if not Fox will pick him up. I don’t care which side of the aisle this guy is on, if he is willing to stick his neck out and do his job which is to provide fair, unbalanced news then my hat’s off to him.
A year ago his career was over.
Under Bari, he might get a promotion.
That would start to change the culture – if she started to promote the rebels in the ranks
The old guard and many of the new ideologues will never change … but they would struggle with a rebellion …
Remember, the people trying obscure reality here and who are speaking glowingly of a dead a tyrant and his (soon to be history) regime (even if only through their near-universal condemnation of Trump and the US) are the same people who position themselves as having the moral high ground in every domestic dispute.
That guy’s boss needs to be terminated as of yesterday.
With prejudice.
The producer forgot that their license to broadcast can be in peril due to his attempt at propaganda. Good for the reporter. The station has a duty to report the truth, not their version of it.
Common sense is returning?
Now whay!
Kurds in the whey.
Well, then, move them so they are no longer in the whey.
Move them in the same manner the Quakers do when they make Puffed Rice.
https://uselessinformation.org/1927-food-is-shot-from-guns/
I love you Rita! There aren’t many men and even fewer women who will speak their real feelings!
I’m sorry, seeing the words “honesty” and “media” in the same sentence threw me off, thought I’d stumbled into the Babylon Bee or something.
The CBS guy’s name is Vinny Martorano, per Grok.
He instantly has more credibility than the entire CBS news (propaganda) operation combined.
Also, been followed Rita on X and Twitter for years. Fearless, honest, and no filters.
“following”
This just in: “Basic Humanity Trumps Monolithic Propagandizing”
If Goldie doesn’t touch your heart you haven’t got one.
https://x.com/gghamari/status/2027798011577782685
Glad to see one reporter taking the BS out of CBS.
CBS Austin is not under the ownership of CBS. The station, known as KEYE-TV, is owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is among the largest and most conservative-leaning media conglomerates in the United States.
The current legacy media would have praised Tojo, Hitler, Mao, and Stalin. No credibility what-so-ever!