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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://x.com/nothoodlum/status/2011190480873144633?s=46&t=kf1qYlCXQnKgUhJWEIu2vg[/twitter][/quote]

Are there still 3.9 million people that watch CBS News? I'd imagine every single one of those viewers is old enough to remember Walter Cronkite. And CBS is going to lose all of them if they want to swim in the sea of hot takes and viral content. There's this thing called the internet. CBS is not competing in that cesspool. The only thing CBS News had was a legacy brand - responsible, fact-checked, mainstream television journalism. Destroy that and there is nothing left. Absolutely no 25 year old is tuning in to CBS News at 6:30 for their hot takes. [/quote]

They don't care about ratings. The entire point is that they remove a centrist viewpoint and replace it with an ideological viewpoint. CBS before the Ellisons bought it was centrist, boring, normal Americana. They are going to destroy 60 Minutes.

Even if ratings decline to 1M viewers per night, the Ellisons won't care. They have too much money.

Why do you think the Ellisons are fighting so hard to buy Time Warner? Because they want to control what views are propagated and want to remove normal, centrist voices.

It's never been about ratings. It's about silencing. [/quote]

CBS has not changed.  It is still centrist.  Or as you put it:  “ was centrist, boring, normal Americana.”

It’s factual journalism.  Sorry if you have a problem with that.[/quote]

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