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"Newsroom culture clash" at CBS News

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‘Marco Rubio, we salute you’: Revamped CBS Evening News goes full MAGA

CBS News demonstrated its coziness with the Trump administration on Tuesday night’s broadcast of the “CBS Evening News,” in which anchor Tony Dokoupil praised…
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While this is an editorial, the last sentence says that Democrats, should they retake control of one or both of the houses of Congress in November, say that they will investigate the Ellisons and CBS News. We'll see.
 
ted chittenden said:
www.dailykos.com

‘Marco Rubio, we salute you’: Revamped CBS Evening News goes full MAGA

CBS News demonstrated its coziness with the Trump administration on Tuesday night’s broadcast of the “CBS Evening News,” in which anchor Tony Dokoupil praised…
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While this is an editorial, the last sentence says that Democrats, should they retake control of one or both of the houses of Congress in November, say that they will investigate the Ellisons and CBS News. We'll see.
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The last sentence says nothing of the sort, but this is in the fourth-to-last paragraph and makes no mention of investigating CBS News:


Democrats have warned CBS’ parent company, Paramount, that it will likely become the subject of investigations under a Democratic House majority after Paramount chose to pay Trump a multimillion-dollar bribe near the beginning of his new term.
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ted chittenden said:
While this is an editorial, the last sentence says that Democrats, should they retake control of one or both of the houses of Congress in November, say that they will investigate the Ellisons and CBS News. We'll see.
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Let me ask you: Where is there an exception to the first amendment? "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press."

No law. It's wrong when Brandon Carr does it, and it's wrong when the other side does it. It's wrong. Freedom of the press means what it says. No exceptions. If you don't want congress to investigate the Bezos purchase of the Post, or the Soros investment in Audacy. then don't threaten to investigate the Ellison's purchase of CBS.
 
TheBigA said:
Let me ask you: Where is there an exception to the first amendment? "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press."

No law. It's wrong when Brandon Carr does it, and it's wrong when the other side does it. It's wrong. Freedom of the press means what it says. No exceptions. If you don't want congress to investigate the Bezos purchase of the Post, or the Soros investment in Audacy. then don't threaten to investigate the Ellison's purchase of CBS.
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First, Michael Hagerty is correct; I wrote my preceeding response from memory, a normal goof on my part.

Second, given how the current president has altered the script and undertaken to investigate media companies he doesn't like (as well as file lawsuits against some of them), I can fully understand and appreciate the Democrats' response. Perhaps we are entering into a new era, led by President Trump, where the First Amendment (as well as much of the rest of the U.S. Constitution) is being thrown to the wayside. And, in truth, I think that the Ellisons' roles in purchasing media that President Trump doesn't like because they criticize him and then turning them into a mouthpiece for his policies should come under close scrutiny, regardless of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
 
ted chittenden said:
Second, given how the current president has altered the script and undertaken to investigate media companies he doesn't like (as well as file lawsuits against some of them), I can fully understand and appreciate the Democrats' response.
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You didn't answer my question. It's wrong when the president does it, and it's wrong when democrats do the same thing. Two wrongs don't make a right.

If people don't like CBS, they can watch something else. No law requiring anyone to watch something they don't like. We all have the right to say what we want. We don't have any right to force others to listen.
 
ted chittenden said:
First, Michael Hagerty is correct; I wrote my preceeding response from memory, a normal goof on my part.

Second, given how the current president has altered the script and undertaken to investigate media companies he doesn't like (as well as file lawsuits against some of them), I can fully understand and appreciate the Democrats' response. Perhaps we are entering into a new era, led by President Trump, where the First Amendment (as well as much of the rest of the U.S. Constitution) is being thrown to the wayside.
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No.

Go back and read the correct quote again. The Democrats are proposing a bribery investigation. That's normal and appropriate activity for Congress when a large sum of money has been directed toward an elected official and the entity paying the money benefits (in this case with a rapid approval of the Paramount-CBS deal).

If the current GOP-majority Congress were doing its job instead of playing partisan politics, those hearings would have taken place before the approval was granted.
 
michael hagerty said:
No.

Go back and read the correct quote again. The Democrats are proposing a bribery investigation. That's normal and appropriate activity for Congress when a large sum of money has been directed toward an elected official and the entity paying the money benefits (in this case with a rapid approval of the Paramount-CBS deal).

If the current GOP-majority Congress were doing its job instead of playing partisan politics, those hearings would have taken place before the approval was granted.
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Again, I stand corrected. Of course, the Ellisons might argue that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 decision holding the U.S. President above the law for just about anything he did while in office applys to them as well (and yes, I'm again doing this from memory--please feel free to correct me.)
 
TheBigA said:
Let me ask you: Where is there an exception to the first amendment? "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press."

No law. It's wrong when Brandon Carr does it, and it's wrong when the other side does it. It's wrong. Freedom of the press means what it says. No exceptions. If you don't want congress to investigate the Bezos purchase of the Post, or the Soros investment in Audacy. then don't threaten to investigate the Ellison's purchase of CBS.
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Into the allegation of bribery.
 
ted chittenden said:
Again, I stand corrected. Of course, the Ellisons might argue that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 decision holding the U.S. President above the law for just about anything he did while in office applys to them as well (and yes, I'm again doing this from memory--please feel free to correct me.)
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The Supreme Court ruling gives Trump and all future presidents immunity from prosecution (and here I'll quote the court's ruling):

for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts.
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The question that will come up in the Paramount/CBS deal is---does the President of the United States have any constitutional authority when it comes to business transactions outside the scope of his office?

And let's say the broadest interpretation is that he gets immunity for taking a bribe.

That does NOTHING for the person who paid the bribe. And there's the legal jeopardy for the Ellisons.
 
TheBigA said:
Everything this president does is about bribery. Everything. If congress is going to investigate bribery, it shouldn't be restricted to Paramount.
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Good god, no one said it would be restricted to that. It was in the context of one topic. Hell, a hypothetical future Congress won’t have enough time or staff to intestate every single bribe.
TheBigA said:
They impeached him twice and he still got re-elected. PT Barnum knew what he was talking about.
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He did but it’s deeper. There is a lot more going on than just the suggestion of the quotes attributed to him about the intelligence of the public. That’s true so far as it goes, but cruelty, hatred, racism, misogyny and xenophobia play into that mix.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I didn't think about that and for the first time since Christmas music ended, I should have been able to yesterday. I just didn't happen to be in the car at the right time.

But when it was still playing 60s and 70s instead of mostly 80s, another station was doing Fox News and I didn't hear bias. Maybe it won't affect the radio news.
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Chimp: this thread has been about CBS Television news, not the radio news.
 
tall_guy1 said:
Bari Weiss’ CBS clashed over how to cover transgender people | Advocate.com Bari Weiss’s CBS newsroom reportedly clashed over how to cover transgender people Apparently, Bari Weiss doesn't want to include the preferred language for trans advocates.
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Some of this is that the Ellisons have donated to certain politicians that made Bari Weiss go that way. In this case the Ellisons donated to Trump allies in the past decade.



www.businessinsider.com

Larry Ellison was briefly the world's richest man. Here are the politicians he's backed over the years.

The biggest beneficiary of the Oracle cofounder's largesse has been Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who ran for president in 2024.
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Larry Ellison Steps Up as Top GOP Midterm Fundraiser, Donating $15 Million This Year – But Why?

"Larry is too smart and savvy to fall for the Trump snake oil, but there are some in Silicon Valley who are tired of Democratic class warfare," a Republican strategist said
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