Yes, that was the phrase . I want to say Thursday and Monday. It was Costa’s newsroom tag to his package.
CBS is not making changes to please their viewers. They're making changes to please their bosses.
World News with David Muir survives just fine. And all 3 of these are among the top watched non-sports linear content on TV. Its the rest of the programming thats in decline, but they hold up fine.
And they want to see improved ratings as that is the only way to improve revenue.
That is different as Russia is a controlled economy with a virtual dictator.
Why is it that many here on RD expect changes to be almost instant and total? In many instances, they are the opposite with slow transformations.
He was elected in large part due to the media.
Elon's takeover of Twitter/X, you could see the changes relatively quickly. And so far the public/media perception of the new CBS News is a lot different than it actually is at this point. Per instance, if you see CBS's coverage of ICE, it is not very favorable. They did a favorable story about Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance too.
You know that didn't used to be the case. Russia was a functioning democracy with legitimate elections and an independent press. Deeply flawed, yes, but functional -- just like the US.
Still, by altering people's feeds, he was able to shift a largely left wing platform to a largely right wing one in not long at all. Right now, CBS is still pretty neutral.
CBS as a network is different from X.
Even Evening News hasn't really been as right leaning as people make it out to be. If it was, it would clearly take a pro-ICE stance in its stories and would have glossed over what Trump and allies have done more. That really isn't happening like people are assuming.
I've felt like I've needed to say something here, but have been reluctant to do so because it's off-topic and this thread has had difficulty staying on-topic. So I will be brief. I've felt the sting of anti-LGBT+ discrimination in several ways, most subtle. Got beaten up once, too. Things have gotten better over time, but they're still not where they need to be. Moreover, anti-LGBT actions and attitudes have left a legacy of deep distrust. This is especially true with respect to certain religious groups, most of an evangelistic and/or fundamentalist nature. These groups have aligned themselves with the Republican party in hopes of forcing their beliefs onto the general population. That's what is meant by "the religious right". Calling them "conservative" is, in my mind, a misnomer because a true conservative would adopt a laissez-faire philosophy toward personal identity. Instead these groups want to force their identity and their beliefs on everyone else. From this perspective their attacks on transgender people serve as a wedge, to make a start toward reversing hard-won rights and acceptance and instead roll everything back to the way it was in the 1950s. Marriage equality, for example, is something that seems to infuriate these people. I don't know why; my marriage doesn't affect a single damn thing about them. So I do not trust these people. I do not trust their radio stations, either, even if they're mostly playing music. I always suspect what their real agenda is. I suspect they want to enact an official religion, their religion, so that they have power over everyone else. In other words, a theocracy. Look at how they've cozied up to a president whose personal life is, to put it mildly, not something they would normally have embraced. That says a lot right there about their lust for power.
For the general population outside those people the "LGB" has gained acceptance but there's still bigotry even outside religion towards "T" though I am sure LGB don't have it super easy due to that group's societal influence.
