"CBS Caught Deleting Footage After Their Reporter Highlights Gruesome Details About Pandemic"

"CBS News couldn’t take the heat when a journalist remarked on air about the adverse impact ongoing pandemic measures, like lockdowns, school closures and masking mandates, are having on our youngsters today and how little the media seems interested in covering it.

So they just scrubbed the woman’s verboten remarks from airing...

The Media Research Center’s Newsbusters website caught the glaring omission on Sunday, when longtime CBS reporter and the network’s chief legal correspondent, Jan Crawford, brought up concerns about children’s mental health amid the pandemic during a segment on 'Face the Nation.'

The clip quickly went viral, likely because this is a common-sense issue that the vast majority of Americans ought to be highly concerned about.

However, as MCR figured out, Crawford’s comments were axed from airing on the program and can only be seen on social media videos and on the YouTube video of the full segment and read in a CBS transcript of the show.

In the now-viral clip, host Margaret Brennan asked Crawford, who was taking part in the show’s year-end reporter roundtable, her pick for the most underreported story of the year.

The reporter and mother promptly replied that 'my kids hear me rant about this every day, so I might as well tell you guys.' She announced her pick would undoubtedly be 'the crushing impact that our COVID policies have had on young kids and children.'...

Noting that children are 'by far the least serious risk for serious illness,' she explained that 'even teenagers, you know, a healthy teenager has a one in a million chance of getting and dying from COVID, which is way lower than, you know, dying in a car wreck on a road trip.'

'But they have suffered and sacrificed the most, especially kids and underrepresented at risk communities,' she said...

'The risk of suicide, girl, suicide attempts among girls now up 51 percent this year, black kids nearly twice as likely as white kids to die by suicide. I mean, school closures, lockdowns, cancellation of sports. You couldn’t even go on a playground in the D.C. area without cops scurrying — getting — shooing the kids off,' she explained.

'Tremendous negative impact on kids, and it’s been an afterthought. You know, it’s hurt their dreams, their future learning, loss, risk of abuse, their mental health. And now, with our knowledge, our vaccines. If our policies don’t reflect a more measured and reasonable approach for our children, they will be paying for our generation’s decisions, the rest of their lives. And that, to me, is the greatest underreported story of the past year.'

Her colleagues nodded in agreement, and Brennan noted, 'Well said and frightening' before going to reporter David Martin, who explained that his pick was going to seem 'paltry' by comparison. (It was the space arms race.)

However, as Newsbusters’ Curtis Houck demonstrated in a Twitter thread, when CBS aired 'Face the Nation' on Sunday, they nixed the whole segment, despite its viral appeal on social media.

Not sure how many have picked this up yet, but the dirty little secret on the Jan Crawford clip from CBS's Face the Nation yesterday -- it DIDN'T even air during the show.

FTN has done a segment for at least a year or two about undercovered stories, but didn't make the air.

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 27, 2021

'They will be paying for our generation’s decisions the rest of their lives': @JanCBS explains why she thinks 2021's biggest underreported story was the devastating impact of COVID policies on children pic.twitter.com/AUU1f6AFNi

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) December 26, 2021

So … CBS decided not to cover their own reporters’ picks for most underreported stories? I struggle to formulate the words to describe just how ironic this is.

This conspicuously selective editing is also depressing and truly chilling... This is exactly why it is apt to describe the fake news media as the 'enemy of the people.'"