Scott MacFarlane, who recently departed CBS News, said on Monday that he’s joining MeidasTouch Network, the digital media outlet that bills itself as a “pro-democracy news network” and is known for taking on Donald Trump.
MacFarlane said that he will be chief Washington correspondent for the outlet, and will anchor a daily program called Scott MacFarlane Reports.
“I’m not an opinionist, not an editorialist,” MacFarlane said in a message he posted on X. “I’m far from a politician. I’m an enterprise reporter. Have been for a quarter century. What I’ll do is bring this enterprise reporting to all the components of the MeidasTouch network, all the contributors of the MeidasTouch Network.”
He added, “It’s important when we underscore how significant this moment is, this moment of unique political toxicity and unique political danger. MeidasTouch and I have long shared this same philosophy — you don’t platform lies. You don’t platform conspiracy theories. And you don’t allow for the whitewashing of history.”
MacFarlane covered Congress and the Justice Department for CBS News, work that included the criminal prosecutions against January 6th defendants, as well as the criminal cases against Trump.
