Media critics have accused them of cowing to MAGA Republicans.
  • magnetosphere
    50•5 hours ago

    Media critics have accused them [CBS] of cowing to MAGA Republicans.

    And those critics are entirely correct. This is a spineless, utterly irresponsible decision.

    As Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein wrote in 2019, “Journalists can’t just dispassionately chronicle two equally valid ‘sides.’ A free press needs (and is needed by) lowercase-d democracy. We can’t exist without it.”

    I agree completely, and CBS is failing the public.

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 hours ago

      Democracy doesn’t need a lower case d, nor does republicanism, only calling yourself a radical republican, but that’s modern journalism for you.

  • @[email protected]English
    45•5 hours ago

    It makes sense once you consider Paramount is in limbo until a merger with Skydance, run by David Ellison, the son of right-wing billionaire Larry Ellison.

    David Ellison may be more liberal and has apparently donated to democratic candidates more often than republicans. But you can imagine the direction coming down from high-up CBS positions to not engage in anything that may look partisan.

    it’s just a shame that the right has convinced anyone that “verifiable reality” is partisan.

      • ddhEnglish
        7•3 hours ago

        You know how for years the billionaires have said if the tax environment is too onerous they will leave? Well now’s the time for them to get taxed or go. Like, what does a country really want billionaires for anymore?

  • @[email protected]
    18•5 hours ago

    🎵They’re eating the dogs

    They’re eating the cats

    They’re eating the pets of the people who live there🎵

    CBS: “Yup”

  • @AbouBenAdhemEnglish
    13•5 hours ago

    …and now the strategy behind the couch rumors becomes clear.

  • @[email protected]
    8•5 hours ago

    You know how everyone loses their god damned minds over seeing a commercial or a news site with an ad or, Erastil forbid, a paywall?

    fascists don’t throw a pissy fit when that happens. Which is why news media outlets are, at best, trying to not alienate them.