Here is their lame attempt ...
A CBS Austin Reporter Was Told Not To Cover a Pro-Trump Iran Rally. He Did Anyway. Then Viral Posts on X Rewrote What Happened
http://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cbs-reporter-told-not-cover-045559120.html?guccounter=1&;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGZGT0e7LpvOnvTwsBhuWmn195lBFhuFDRMRB4Src_lpkT9QYe7bhxyOg47ybhRgWtyumGyZuJ9oDh7LwcklherLJjYqsOVU-003rZGzLDTUWJ5267KCyL4Rh7G06CEo_ifVR32cXXWpbjNiRfo__OdjXiw6s_rceFuGZ7xTlc3G
By Olamide Oloro
Yahoo News
Sun, March 1, 2026
A 30-second clip of a CBS Austin reporter has become one of the most-shared media moments of the weekend, and almost no one sharing it has seen what happened next. CBS Austin (KEYE-TV) is a CBS-affiliated station owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, and Vinny Martorano, a multimedia journalist there, was covering dueling protests at the Texas Capitol on Saturday following the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.
During a Facebook Live stream, a crew member handed him a phone with what appeared to be a message from station management. When Martorano asked what it meant, the crew member replied: they didn't want them to focus on this. Martorano paused, looked around at the crowd chanting behind him, and said he was going to cover it anyway.
Within hours, the clip spread widely across social media. The framing was simple: CBS tried to suppress coverage of a pro-Trump rally. A brave reporter said no.
But the clip is only the beginning of the story. And the rest of it is more interesting than the viral version.
The viral clip ends right after Martorano's defiant moment. What most people haven't seen is the live report that followed. When the camera went live, Martorano didn't deliver a one-sided celebration of the rally. He opened by noting that opinions in Austin were mixed.
"Next opinions across Austin about the joint attack between the United States and Israel against Iran that happened early this morning," Martorano said during the broadcast. "Some people like this group behind me are thanking Trump and the United States government for following through with this attack against Iran. While other people across the city say there needs to be more peace in the Middle East. The strike is drawing a variety of opinions."
He also posted footage on X from earlier in the day, showing the anti-strike protest he had originally been sent to cover — demonstrators carrying flags and calling for worldwide peace. In other words, Martorano covered both sides. His report was textbook balanced local journalism.
None of that made it into the viral version.
Here's the part that complicates the narrative further: CBS Austin didn't suppress anything. The station posted the Facebook Live video itself, the same stream where the behind-the-scenes moment was captured. Martorano's full written report was published on the CBS Austin website, covering how Texas leaders and residents were split over the Iran strike. The piece included voices from both supporters and opponents.
So the story being shared across social media, that CBS tried to kill coverage of the rally, doesn't hold up against what CBS Austin actually did. They aired it. They published it. Their own reporter's name is on the byline. ...
Pathetically lame try, Yahoo ... because, by your very own reporting, you have confirmed the validity of why people are giving props to Mr. Martorano. Whoever was in charge of the CBS affiliate (KEYE-TV Austin) absolutely DID try to kill the coverage of the rally in favor of the strikes against Iran, but they couldn't do it once this all went viral. Mr. Martorano FORCED them to commit ACTUAL JOURNALISM - the public wants objective coverage of both sides! So, you "missed" the point in your disingenuous article - intentionally and deceptively, you leftist hacks.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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