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April 7, 2021 (NewsBusters) — Joseph Wulfsohn at Fox News reports CBS News decided on Saturday to delete a tweet for sounding way too partisan. On Friday, CBS tweeted out a report by Khristopher Brooks headlined “3 ways companies can help fight Georgia’s restrictive new voting law.”
Conservatives on Twitter mocked the tweet. “I missed the announcement that CBS is now a Democratic SuperPAC,” RealClearInvestigations senior writer Mark Hemingway quipped.
On Saturday, not only did CBS News delete the tweet, but it also reframed the report to downplay its advocacy.
The headline was changed to “Activists are calling on big companies to challenge new voting laws. Here’s what they’re asking for.” They added no editor’s note explaining the change.
The framework of the Brooks article remained. The three ways companies were urged to fight the Georgia election law was:
1. Do not donate to Republicans who sponsored the law just as corporations decided not to donate to Republicans who challenged the presidential election results.
2. Spread awareness of the Georgia law to other states – which the media are doing aggressively. “Major advertising campaigns
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