There will be no consequences for the "60 Minutes" hit job on DeSantis

The news industry is a multibillion-dollar monster, an untouchable beast with the power to influence legislation and launch wars. It's accountable to nothing except for perhaps members of its own class, and even then, most journalists are reluctant to criticize “legendary” reporters and journalistic institutions for fear of becoming pariahs within the community. There’s a reason why ABC News has never bothered to explain how it mistook footage from a gun range in Kentucky for a Trump administration-enabled war crime in Syria. There’s a reason why CBS has never bothered to explain why it conspired with ABC to fire the CBS staffer suspected of leaking a video showing journalist Amy Robach claiming on camera her superiors spiked her reporting on Jeffrey Epstein and his network of well-connected sexual predators. There’s a reason why Katie Couric is still beloved among her media peers, even after she was caught deceptively editing an interview to make Virginia gun rights activists look foolish. There’s a reason even disgraced newsman Dan Rather, who is treated now as an elder statesman of reporting, complete with journalism awards named in his honor, has been invited to participate in any Biden White House press briefing of his choosing. Your disgust means very little to these people. They take criticism seriously only when it comes from one of their own, which is rare because few, if any, professional journalists are willing to run afoul of their peers.