Skydance Tells FCC It Will Create CBS News Ombudsman, Eliminate DEI at Paramount
The company said it would commit to a "comprehensive review" post-transaction.
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“Varied Ideological Perspectives”: a new goal promised for CBS under Skydance
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That's fascinating. BTW NPR also has an ombudsman who has the same role and oversight of NPR News. That seemed to not matter to anyone who attacked NPR News. It didn't come into play during the congressional process. The ombudsman was never brought in to testify. No one evaluated the many posts the ombudsman released. It seems like these things are just lips moving. Whatever we need to do to get to a yes.
That will never see the light of day only because David can't wait to dump CBS. But the impetus is on Sinclair or Nexstar (the most obvious buyers for CBS and the owned-stations) doing it instead.Skydance Tells FCC It Will Create CBS News Ombudsman, Eliminate DEI at Paramount
The company said it would commit to a "comprehensive review" post-transaction.
In all seriousness, David Ellison never really wanted CBS and after this continuous fiasco, he wants it less than ever.
I hear Dan Bongino might be looking for work soon. Maybe he can be the ombudsman.
'The Daily Show' gets new host amid late-night upheaval
"The Daily Show" is adding a new rotating host to its lineup, joining Jon Stewart and others as they unpack the news.
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Here is another one this time changes at the Daily Show with rotating hosts. However this comes as Paramount has to respond to the late show being cut off.
It is not the responsibility or role of a functional press to “present both sides.” It is their role to report what is. Not everything has two sides. Not everything is neutral. Some things are horrific. Some things are criminal. Some things are not in any serious dispute no matter what some overly loud crackpots say. Giving such utter nonsense oxygen and validity is not in the public interest.
And that's tragic! No democracy can survive long if its people aren't interested in the hard news of politics and policies that affect them. Boomers, because of the Vietnam War and the civil rights struggles, instictively knew that; so did their forebears, the greatest generation, because of World War II and its aftermath. I'm in my 60s now. If I manage to make it to my 80s and 90s, the country I will be living in, including its media, what is considered news, and how that "news" will be delivered will be completely foreign to me and, in my view, no longer worth fighting for.
Thank you!
No, it should present all sides.
Which includes multiple perspectives.
An ant making it across my driveway is news. It just is not relevant to anyone.
The issue is relevance and perspective. I've told many times the story of how a number of us would meet in Quito after any event that got world press attentions, such as a revolution, discovery of oil deposits, etc. Our group included the correspondents for AP, UPI, Reuters, Newsweek and some Latin American agencies. We'd read the stories in everything from Time to Prensa Latina and TASS.
Some of the stories had nearly no resemblance to what we had seen ourselves because the perspective of each reporter was both personal and in line with the world view of their employer.
I had a professor in university say yes, the media is biased, but not in a way you'd think. There are a lot of third party voices that never hear the light of day, just "Democrat" and "Republican" views.
And the real tragedy is that Carr knows better...
So you're telling me Fox News presents all sides? The NY Post presents all sides? OANN presents all sides? Multiple perspectives?
A reminder once again: There is no fairness doctrine. No requirement anywhere that anyone has to present all sides or perspectives.
And the government doesn't get to decide who is biased and who isn't. Not in this hemisphere.
I'll simplify this.
If a candidate for public office says migrants are eating cats and dogs in a midwestern American city and they're not, it is the press' responsibility to report the lie ONLY so that the truth has context. There is no "both sides" in that argument.
The role of a free press in a free society is to expose the truth. The guys trying to bury the free press right now aren't looking for equal time for debates of lofty ideas. They want the media to stop examining what they say and reporting it.
It's that great old Bob Loblaw ad in "Arrested Development":
"Why should you go to prison for a crime someone else...noticed?"
If a candidate for public office says migrants are eating cats and dogs in a midwestern American city and they're not, it is the press' responsibility to report the lie ONLY so that the truth has context. There is no "both sides" in that argument.
The role of a free press in a free society is to expose the truth. The guys trying to bury the free press right now aren't looking for equal time for debates of lofty ideas. They want the media to stop examining what they say and reporting it.
It's that great old Bob Loblaw ad in "Arrested Development":
"Why should you go to prison for a crime someone else...noticed?"
And I'll go a step further.
All sides? Fine. There are people who believe the earth is flat. Still. Wanna give them equal time and credibility?
Epstien's in the news right now. All sides would involve a full-credibility interview with the North American Man-Boy Love Association, which advocates for pedophilia, campaigns to abolish ages of consent and lobbies to have child sexual abusers released from prison.
Wanna do that?
If not, then tell me where the line gets drawn.
I think at this stage of human existence on earth, and the profession of journalism, we are best served by a press that won't waste our time with utter bullshit that people who should have no influence or power spew.
All sides? Fine. There are people who believe the earth is flat. Still. Wanna give them equal time and credibility?
Epstien's in the news right now. All sides would involve a full-credibility interview with the North American Man-Boy Love Association, which advocates for pedophilia, campaigns to abolish ages of consent and lobbies to have child sexual abusers released from prison.
Wanna do that?
If not, then tell me where the line gets drawn.
I think at this stage of human existence on earth, and the profession of journalism, we are best served by a press that won't waste our time with utter bullshit that people who should have no influence or power spew.
No. A fact does not have sides. Pretending every crackpot opinion is of equal value is nonsense. There are no machines controlling the weather and aiming storms or whatever silliness MTG spewed. The earth is not flat. There is no public interest served in “now let’s talk to the person who insists our planet is a pancake.” None. They are demonstrably wrong no matter their “opinion.” They have been proven wrong. Pretending they have a meaningful perspective is inane. As is the “democrats control the tornadoes” idiocy. But thousands of not many more people spout these ideas. They are not facts.
Riveting. But the fact is the ant did or did not survive. It is not a matter of perspective, or opinion. Yes or no. Not both.
The issue is fact. The issue is evidence. The issue is reality.
For the love of….this isn’t that. The very point was a functional press is not about a world view. It’s about facts. This did or did not happen. A statement that is demonstrably false is a lie. It rained or it did not rain. Dinosaurs existed. JFK Jr is dead. We don’t need to be wasting time on rebuttals to established reality.
And when a preponderance, an overwhelming preponderance, of actual experts make a statement it is valid to say that it is a widespread consensus, because it is, without pretending the wingnuts online screeching the conspiracy du jour should be treated as serious equals. They are not.
True and we will find out in the White House Lawsuit against Murdoch and Wall Street Journal. Yes as always it ends in 1st Amendment issues.
Apparently someone in the white house is claiming they have the power to cancel The View:
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White House warns 'The View' could be canceled next after Joy Behar's anti-Trump rant
The White House attacked “The View" co-host Joy Behar in a statement on Wednesday by calling out the show’s low ratings and saying it could be canceled.
"Worship Trump or else". Nah, no authoritarianism here.Apparently someone in the white house is claiming they have the power to cancel The View:
White House warns 'The View' could be canceled next after Joy Behar's anti-Trump rant
The White House attacked “The View" co-host Joy Behar in a statement on Wednesday by calling out the show’s low ratings and saying it could be canceled.
You are engaging in hyperbole. One person said that, were ratings to continue to decline (unsubstantiated), the show could be cancelled just like..."Apparently someone in the white house is claiming they have the power to cancel The View:
White House warns 'The View' could be canceled next after Joy Behar's anti-Trump rant
The White House attacked “The View" co-host Joy Behar in a statement on Wednesday by calling out the show’s low ratings and saying it could be canceled.
The View responded with ratings data that showed that statement to be wrong.
This is just another partisan pissing contest. In this kind of situation, each side wins with its own partisans.