CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin conducted a journalism masterclass on Wednesday, grilling disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried during The New York Times’ DealBook Summit.

Sorkin opened by providing “the generous view” that SBF is young and “made a series of terrible, terrible, very, very bad decisions.” He also shared “the less generous view” that the 30-year-old “committed a massive fraud, that this is a Ponzi scheme, a manipulation of the system.”

This might seem mundane, but in today’s hyper-ideological and hyper-partisan media ecosystem usually one viewpoint is given. Sorkin did anything but, providing the array of reactions while being unafraid of confrontation.

Sorkin grilled SBF about contradictory and inconsistent statements such as SBF telling Bloomberg in August there was no connection between FTX and Alameda Research, a crypto exchange SBF also co-founded.

For example, Sorkin asked about the connection between Alameda and FTX and noted that Alameda employees, including disgraced former CEO Caroline Ellison, were living in the penthouse with SBF.

Sorkin held SBF’s feet to the fire. The interview was pure hardball, a far cry from the fawning coverage SBF has been gifted as a darling of the financial media.

Job well done.

Kanye West took his anti-Semitic ranting to a new low in a Thursday interview with Alex Jones onInfowars.

West first publicly launched his anti-Semitic campaign following an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson. Motherboard later uncovered footage of Carlson's interview with West, which revealed the rapper also made anti-Semitic remarks while sitting down with the Fox News host. So, Carlson knew of West's views before the rapper vowed to go "death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE."

On top of scrubbing West's remarks for his own benefit, Carlson also went on to ignore the posts in a follow up interview with Candace Owens -- another media figure who supported West throughout the controversy

Assessing West, Carlson declared, "We've rarely heard a man speak so honestly and so movingly," while Owens celebrated his "artistic expression" and later somehow arranged for him to buy her husband's social media platform Parler in a since terminated deal. 

Carlson and Owens ultimately gave West the momentum to say, "I like Hitler" while on air with Jones and white supremacist Nick Fuentes Thursday. It also got him and Fuentes a dinner with former President Donald Trump.

Carlson and Owens stand alone in promoting West as a right-wing hero, as he devolved into vile anti-Semitism slowly but surely.