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Departing CBS News producer claims political bias as Paramount poised to buy Warner Bros

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CBS News signage for the first vice-presidential debate of the 2024 election at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York. Photograph: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A veteran CBS News producer who is leaving the network after 46 years has suggested that political bias is at play at the network in a farewell memo sent to colleagues on Friday afternoon.

“We’ve been reading a lot of goodbyes lately and here I am headed out the door. It’s too soon, even after 46 years,” Mary Walsh wrote in the memo, which was obtained by the Guardian. “But maybe it’s for the best. We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that.”

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