CBS Channels Opponents of GOP Letter to Iran, Highlights ‘Traitors’ Headline

Jeffrey Meyer | March 10, 2015
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Video cross-posted here at NewsBusters. On Tuesday morning, the big three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks continued to play-up the supposed controversy surrounding a letter signed by 47 Republican senators to the leaders of Iran surrounding its negotiations with the Obama administration over its nuclear program. While all three network morning shows covered the GOP letter, CBS This Morning did its best to promote the harshest critics with fill-in host Jeff Glor introducing the network’s coverage by declaring “[i]n Washington this morning Democrats are denouncing a letter to Iran signed by most of the 54 Republican Senators. This morning's New York Daily News headline calls those Republicans “traitors.”