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01/15/2026 11:30
Subject: Right wing Bari Weiss given control of CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
Now it is CBS/Fox News versus ABC and NBC.
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
Anonymous
01/15/2026 11:27
Subject: Re:Right wing Bari Weiss given control of CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
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.
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.
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.
They've given the White House de facto veto on any news story. If the WH refuses to comment, Weiss has said CBS won't run the story. That is the definition of Big Government propaganda.
Their policy will suddenly change if/when a Dem gets in the WH.
Anonymous
01/15/2026 11:00
Subject: Re:Right wing Bari Weiss given control of CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
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.
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.
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.
They've given the White House de facto veto on any news story. If the WH refuses to comment, Weiss has said CBS won't run the story. That is the definition of Big Government propaganda.
Anonymous
01/15/2026 10:09
Subject: Re:Right wing Bari Weiss given control of CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Bari Weiss is a centrist and brilliant, strong woman.
Hey Bari, how’s it going?
I think her mom is on here.
Anonymous
01/15/2026 10:08
Subject: Re:Right wing Bari Weiss given control of CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
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.
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.
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.
Only the "news" that gets the OK from the orange pile of dog feces.
Anonymous
01/15/2026 10:04
Subject: Re:Right wing Bari Weiss given control of CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
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.
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.
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.
Anonymous
01/15/2026 09:43
Subject: Re:Right wing Bari Weiss given control of CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:John Oliver had a great take down of Weiss on his show a couple of months ago. She's all kinds of awful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieTx_P6INQ
+1
So much dishonesty and bad journalism.
+1
She's the worst - a vile bigot willing to push RWNJ propaganda.
Please be honest PP: the real reason you HATE her is she’s Jewish and you want to keep pushing your Gaza agenda.
You do this in EVERY DAMN THREAD.
Exactly. Bari Weiss is one of the few brave women to deny that there is a genocide and famine in Gaza. Wish more people would speak the truth like her.
I wonder why so many people don’t deny that Gaza is a a site of famine and genocide.
Mysterious.
Anonymous
01/15/2026 09:20
Subject: Re:Right wing Bari Weiss given control of CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
Anonymous wrote:
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.
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.
Anonymous
01/14/2026 12:55
Subject: Re:Right wing Bari Weiss given control of CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
Anonymous wrote:
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.
The cable news demographic are a lot older vs the network evening news. The younger you are the less likely you are to watch cable or network news. The funny thing is 3.9 is double what Fox news gets and Fox news gets all the viewers. So the market share for Fox News type of programming is actually pretty small and presents problems for advertisers.
Anonymous
01/14/2026 12:20
Subject: Re:Right wing Bari Weiss given control of CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
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.
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