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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere is something I want to make sure everyone here knows about CBS.
I don't know how much attention this story has gotten here -
CBS Hires Frank Luntz, The Man Who Reportedly Shepherded The Plan To Defeat Obama
In his book Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives, Draper reported that Luntz "organized a dinner" on Obama's inauguration night featuring a handful of "the Republican Party's most energetic thinkers." The attendees -- which included current vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan -- reportedly emerged from the nearly four hour dinner "almost giddily" after having agreed on "a way forward."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/05/cbs-hires-frank-luntz-the-man-who-reportedly-sh/189755
Yes DUers - this is the same Frank Luntz that writes the talking points for faux.
CBS is no longer the news station of Dan Rather - so please keep that in mind when you are tuning in to CBS.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)She does her best to make Romney look good.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)here...
librechik
(30,663 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Saddam Hussein on the eve of the invasion of Iraq. That interview is a historical record and evidence that George W. Bush invaded Iraq based on a lie. Saddam Hussein responded to the accusation that he had WMDs. He responded honestly, and GWB invaded anyway. In so doing, GWB violated international law in my opinion.
asjr
(10,479 posts)the truth is the way to go. I can't stand any of the news now. I am still with certain MSNBC people, but I left CNN years ago. Thinks he is a Wolf, Blitzer's voice makes me cringe.
I was so happy to see Dan Rather on MSNBC the other evening.
He may have a show on the internet tonight.
navarth
(5,927 posts)(on edit) What used to be the best, most trustworthy network slithers closer to Fox Fake News. Very sad indeed. What the hell, I watch Current anyway.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)It had been my network news of choice for years. My disgust was cemented when CBS hired Katie Couric; I didn't watch even one of her newscasts or anyone else's since Rather's unscrupulous, political dismissal.
I see I haven't missed much. Networks are pretty much the play toys of their corporate owners; the hiring of Frank Luntz by the once-employer of Edward R. Murrow couldn't illustrate that better.
Z_I_Peevey
(2,783 posts)Because I prefer my local CBS affiliate for local weather, I watch the local CBS morning show. When they switch to the national CBS morning show, we count how many seconds/stories it takes them to get to John McCain. We call it the "McCain Network." There's not much they don't require his opinion about, and whenever he might be unavailable they of course have backup Republicans on.
Can't change the channel fast enough.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)Both have for some time been trying to emulate Fox.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)and I was addicted to it as a kid in the 1960s. The programming became so rank that I just stopped watching anything.
dmosh42
(2,217 posts)especially if it might cast a bad light on the ruling money class, who owns the media in most of the "free" world.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)oh wait, that's fiction. There is no such news show.
jillan
(39,451 posts)really can't find it with the exception of a few.
avebury
(10,946 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)and then exhaling them out over the airwaves. CBS has crapped the bed in terms of journalistic integrity and credibility -- and it is sad to see it as just another corporate (R) propaganda catapult.
Uncle Joe
(58,111 posts)CBS Corporate Broadcasting System
ABC All About Corporations
NBC Nothing But Corporations
MSNBC More Stealthy Nothing But Corporations
CNN Corporate News Now
FOX Fascist Owned Xenophobes
Thanks for the thread, jillian.
calimary
(80,693 posts)VERY clever, and sadly, VERY true:
CBS Corporate Broadcasting System
ABC All About Corporations
NBC Nothing But Corporations
MSNBC More Stealthy Nothing But Corporations
CNN Corporate News Now
FOX Fascist Owned Xenophobes
Um... WHAT "Liberal Media?????????"
alp227
(31,960 posts)Ed Schultz or Rachel Maddow phd???
Uncle Joe
(58,111 posts)I like them both and they do well within their confines.
Having said that, the corporate media's reporting as an institution is dysfunctional, rife with financial conflict of interest and inbred limitation when reporting on the public good versus private benefits.
It's the system.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)uponit7771
(90,225 posts)AllyCat
(16,035 posts)accepts Presidential nomination at RNC" as if days later, that was breaking news? Local channel in Madison WISC TV3 and of course, the CBS channel. Now I know why that happened.
alp227
(31,960 posts)If not, then the company that owns WISC hired crummy news editors.
AllyCat
(16,035 posts)But this is the first I have turned on teevee news in about 8 years so who knows.
alp227
(31,960 posts)(see this wikipedia article for more info) others are owned by third party companies not related to the network but are contracted to carry network programming. Usually the "O&O" stations are in big cities.
For example, my local ABC, CBS, and NBC stations are all network O&O'd. However, my local Fox station is owned by Cox Communications (thus I can be sure that Rupert Murdoch's dirty money isn't tainting the local news). Meanwhile, a couple hours' drive away from your neighborhood, the Chicago ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC stations are all O&O. O&O TV stations are such closely tied with the parent networks they share branding, graphics, etc., for example why the ABC-owned channel 7 stations in Chicagoland, LA, NYC, and the SF Bay Area all share the same "circle 7" logo. Or why WCBS (NYC) and WBBM (Chicagoland) websites are both under "CBSlocal.com". Or why the news graphics for ABC7 in NYC and ABC7 in SF look so similar.
The darker side of third party companies owning network affiliates? Take Sinclair Broadcast Group, a notoriously right-wing-run company that actively pushed a pro Bush agenda in '04 by censoring that Nightline edition where Ted Koppel read the names of dead Iraq war soldiers and making all the stations show a movie that swift-boated John Kerry. Or more recently, the company that owns the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City (which has repeaters throughout Utah thus is essentially the ONLY way to watch NBC in Utah) deciding to censor shows too offensive to Mormons (The Playboy Club last year, this year The New Normal).
To be short, CBS News didn't write the news ticker, rather it must've been the fresh-outta-college intern at the station lazily reading AP copy.
You're right, TV news does suck both at the local and national level, and I watch only PBS NewsHour on TV and watch Democracy Now and Rachel Maddow and Thom Hartmann (who has a TV show and simulcasts his radio show on Free Speech TV so he counts) online. For local news I read my local newspaper website and listen to the local NPR station. The commercial stations' "local news" are pretty much the same ol' kidnapped child, inner-city murder, amazing local figure in the community INFOTAINMENT with too little coverage of local politics (in fact studies have shown that local political coverage on TV news has gone DOWN.)
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)alp227
(31,960 posts)ending his friday show, I will post on youtube soon, my channel with a lot of malloy archives is andrewsaccount09
jillan
(39,451 posts)dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)lexw
(804 posts)I used to look at the CBS L.A. website daily for local news, I have since switched to a local news source (Daily Breeze).
Cha
(295,899 posts)post can be condensed and tweeted to others and cbs, jillan?
YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)...link.
Cha
(295,899 posts)Bird!
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)Blanks
(4,835 posts)Its really no different than the 'Hate Radio' personalities fawning over Romney.
When you have a president that isn't committed to war; the network that profits from war is going to work to bring him down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_defense_contractors
follow the Westinghouse link and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Corporation
This article is about the defunct Westinghouse Electric Corporation founded in 1886, renamed CBS Corporation in 1997, and purchased by Viacom in 1999. For the present-day industrial company, see Westinghouse Electric Company. For other uses of the term "Westinghouse" including modern incarnations and recent licensing deals, see Westinghouse (disambiguation).
It really is that 'Military Industrial Complex' that Eisenhower warned about. When you think about Romney's (and Ryan's) moronic stance on reviving the cold war; its the only thing that makes sense. We really need to pass some anti-monopoly laws to prevent this kind of cheerleading for war.