CBS News Shutters Radio Service After Nearly a Century (apnews.com) 59
CBS News is shutting down its nearly 100-year-old radio news service due to economic pressures and the shift toward digital media and podcasts. Longtime CBS News anchor Dan Rather said: "It's another piece of America that is gone." The Associated Press reports: When it went on the air in September 1927, the service was the precursor to the entire network, giving a youthful William S. Paley a start in the business. Famed broadcaster Edward R. Murrow's rooftop reports during the Nazi bombing of London during World War II kept Americans listening anxiously. Today, CBS News Radio provides material to an estimated 700 stations across the country and is known best for its top-of-the-hour news roundups. The service will end on May 22, the network said Friday.
"Radio is woven into the fabric of CBS News and that's always going to be part of our history," CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss said in delivering the news to the staff. "I want you to know that we did everything we could, including before I joined the company, to try and find a viable solution to sustain the radio operation." But with the radical changes in the media industry, she said, "we just could not find a way to make that possible."
It was unclear how many people will lose their jobs because of the radio shutdown. CBS News was cutting about 6% of its workforce, or more than 60 people, on Friday. It's not the end of turmoil at the network, as parent company Paramount Global is likely to absorb CNN as part of its announced purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery.
"Radio is woven into the fabric of CBS News and that's always going to be part of our history," CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss said in delivering the news to the staff. "I want you to know that we did everything we could, including before I joined the company, to try and find a viable solution to sustain the radio operation." But with the radical changes in the media industry, she said, "we just could not find a way to make that possible."
It was unclear how many people will lose their jobs because of the radio shutdown. CBS News was cutting about 6% of its workforce, or more than 60 people, on Friday. It's not the end of turmoil at the network, as parent company Paramount Global is likely to absorb CNN as part of its announced purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery.
They are a state-owned media now (Score:4, Insightful)
It seems like about 40% of the country has just given up on objective reality. Eventually there will be consequences for that for them, at least the ones who aren't so old they're going to die before the shit hits the fan.
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Re:They are a state-owned media now (Score:5, Informative)
CBS is captured by the right-wing? Really?
Yes. In order to end a fight with the Trump administration, Bari Weiss was given control of CBS with the stated purpose of "protecting conservative interests".
Re: They are a state-owned media now (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: They are a state-owned media now (Score:5, Insightful)
You can't even get her location right. She's from PA you twat.
As for her opinions, she's a right wing nutjob. Always has been. What left wing opinions does she have beyond vague platitudes towards freedom of speech that do not extend to, say, criticism of Israel's government?
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She was born in Pittsburgh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] Also feel free to peruse the link and list all her liberal leanings. I'll check back.
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You dummies buy the sockpuppets hook line and sinker.
Re: They are a state-owned media now (Score:5, Informative)
She literally calls herself a Zionist extremist. Her actions have been in extreme support of Israel and defense of Trump.
The only thing "liberal" about her is that she's a lesbian but there's plenty of rightwing LGBT people out there.
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The only "right wing" thing about Bari Weiss is her support to Israel. Other than that, she's very much a Liberal, although not as deranged as the DSA Intifada crowd. But under that definition, Alan Dershowitz too is a "right wing extremist"
Re:They are a state-owned media now (Score:5, Informative)
Yes. The Atlantic has a great story about it. https://archive.ph/3RGBp [archive.ph]
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Heck, everyone has the news in the palm of their hands.
Until you get some distance from a city. 5G is only good for a mile or so*. 6G will probably be worse.
*I'm getting one bar right now (its raining) and I can see the nearest cell tower from my driveway.
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Btw, you do realize the the Russian broadsheet is called Pravda, just like Trump's own 'social' platform?
Makes you wonder from whom he got that tip
Re:They are a state-owned media now (Score:5, Informative)
ABC and NBC are centrist corpo-media.
NPR has a legal obligation to be balanced and factual. It has also had one source of funding removed (which ironically, if it survives, may ultimately mean the legal limits on its speech are unconstitutional, leading it to reasonably start siding with its donors. Given how much money it makes from "foundations" designed to launder Billionaire's reputations though, there's no guarantee that'll mean it falls to the left.)
MSNBC doesn't exist, it was spun off as MSNOW. MSNOW has a mix of different hosts with radically different politics. Its morning show is still headed an ex-Republican congressman, albeit one sane enough to reject MAGA.
CNN is in the process of being taken over by CBS.
Fox was, prior to CBS being turned into a Fox News clone, not the only right wing news channel, or even the one to the furthest right. OANN and Newsmax, as you well know, competed with it.
Basically centrist, both-sidesy, media is going away, being replaced by corpo-fascist and fascist media on the right. NPR may remain as a balanced, truthful, outlet, it's too early to tell, and MS NOW might possibly continue to be the commercial non-MAGA channel.
This is a shitshow if you want media to improve, rather than cater to particular points of view. I don't want "left" or "right" or "corporate" media, I want truthful media. We haven't had that for 25 years, just corporate and right wing media, with the occasional token leftish talking head.
Re:They are a state-owned media now (Score:5, Interesting)
Re: They are a state-owned media now (Score:2)
Though one has to bear in mind these "media bias ratings" are in themselves subjective. I know my political views and opinions have changed over time.
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I do find the chart a bit odd. Not really sure how AP is "left".
Also, for most of the chart they have the guardian as "leans left" and only "left" until recently... that's... I mean the Guardian is explicitly, unapologetically left wing.
I suspect the definition of "left" has been creeping rightwards too.
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It's been migrating upper right for generations.
https://politicalcompass.org/ [politicalcompass.org]
I've tracked that polisci website (it's not American) for 20 years and seen the migration happening; confirming what I've observed myself. Also, I'm not inside either American bubble despite being here all my life. FYI, they had Jesus mapped by experts twice on that site and had to take it down... neither time was he even close to America's political "spectrum;" which really shouldn't be a shock.
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I agree with you, I think there is a strong migration to the upper right. Its not just the US, either. I don't know that a single factor accounts for it, but I do feel that the migration to that quadrant (and extremes in general, along various axes, that I have seen in my life time) is a worrying trend. Of course, societies have all been through cycles of this before, but it is usually painful.
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I came in as:
Economic Left/Right: -5.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.23
Though some of the questions are ambiguous I feel. Like is "to each according to his ability etc" a nice idea. Depends what you mean bu nice, really.
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The trick they've been grappling with perfecting the compass... is yes they want vague questions because your interpretation of the words is a KEY part of the design of the test! It's very well thought out by smart people over a long period of time. The smarter the design, the fewer questions are needed.
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Even so: the question about whether some people are beyond rehabilitation.
So I do believe that's the case. Trouble is just because it's true doesn't mean it's possible to prove any given person is. Plus when if you can for one, you have to draw the lounge somewhere and there'll always be edge cases. So the only good option for the system to never assume someone is beyond rehabilitation!
I'm not sure how my interpretation on the question aligns with my political beliefs... I answered the first answer.
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Glad to help! It used to be my Sig... but now my Sig is highly relevant. check it out. Here is a well made music video which tries to inform on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
The general landscape in the USA is a diagonal line that today is about 4,4 up to Mussolini which is as far as anybody who was professionally ranked on the chart to the top right. They removed him for the most part because Trump came in tied, in 2016 he was a little to the left. Hitler BTW, is more middle, close to the
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They were big supporters of education (Score:2)
I'm pretty sure they helped my elementary school by their computers and this was back when most elementary didn't have a single one for students to access.
Re:They were big supporters of education (Score:4)
To quote Inspector Clouseau: Not anymore.
But I thought the phrase went the other way? (Score:5, Informative)
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You should try reading the OP's post:
"CBS has gone drastically right wing since Bari Weiss took over"
It is very true, as detailed in their links and here:
https://archive.ph/3RGBp [archive.ph]
Bari Weiss's political views can be be described as 'opportunist'.
Re:But I thought the phrase went the other way? (Score:5, Interesting)
Bari Weiss is right wing? From what perspective? I mean, she doesn’t buy into the Steele Report, supports free speech, and doesn’t think Musk is a Nazi, but that’s hardly “right wing”. Is it? Or does the left wing club require thinking Musk is a Nazi, supporting censorship, and assuming Trump is a Putin super spy?
That Bari Weiss doesn't buy into some of the most extreme ideas of the modern right doesn't make her not right wing, it just shows how utterly off the walls the American right has gone. As for the idea that free speech is a right-wing approach the last year of the Trump administration should make it very clear how much of the right cared only about free speech when it was useful for them. Trying to do things like take away broadcast licenses because one doesn't like what channels have to say https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c626ye5gq16o [bbc.com] is not remotely free speech. And Weiss herself has shown that same hypocrisy which I find particularly, disappointing because she was someone who I disagreed with on some issues but seemed 2 or 3 years ago as a genuine advocate for free speech. And you'll find that I'm someone on Slashdot who had a history of saying that the left had serious free speech issues. But much of her behavior, including her time at CBS, but also her actions at the University of Austin, showed that her support of free speech was only a fig leaf for when she was not in power. Censorship is coming far more from the right right now than the left. Most of the rest of your comment is essentially a strawman of what people on the left generally believe (and I say that as a pretty center-left person who finds much of the left pretty aggravating).
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Oh. Such genius. So “Musk is a Nazi” is a right wing thing? And someone’s FCC license was removed by Trump? I didn’t know that. I’ve never seen someone get back on the air so fast after baldly and falsely claiming a lead Republican was assassinated by another Republican. That’s brief interlude was certainly horrific though! It’s absolutely comparable to repeated instances of censorship of major news and major thought leaders across virtually all mainstream media and
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Oh. Such genius. So “Musk is a Nazi” is a right wing thing? And someone’s FCC license was removed by Trump? I didn’t know that. I’ve never seen someone get back on the air so fast after baldly and falsely claiming a lead Republican was assassinated by another Republican. That’s brief interlude was certainly horrific though! It’s absolutely comparable to repeated instances of censorship of major news and major thought leaders across virtually all mainstream media and major social media. Sometimes for years. Sure. That’s fine. Cause Republicans are bigoted uneducated religious gun clingers, right? Right? And Bari is a fig leaf for secret cabal, right? Smart!
Instead of sarcasm, insults, and strawmen,
I think a general audience is plenty smart enough to see why sarcasm is warranted here. And obviously you think you’re smarter than them, as you clumsily sidestepped the point in full view. No official action was taken, and criticism of the FCC head’s comments was almost as heavy from the right as the left (one suspects you probably aren’t informed enough to know that). and the actual thing you labeled “censorship” was independently decided by Kimmel’s own sponsors - who
Re: But I thought the phrase went the other way? (Score:2)
Simply put, Bari Weiss is no Lord Reith. Reith wanted all sides heard.
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1) Those made up numbers are not verified.
2) They agreed to sign a contract and pay him 14 million per year not long ago.
3) They paid him less in the beginning year and could have at least tried to go back to that. If trends were so bad, then why did they increase pay so much?
4) They did not even try to renegotiate his contract or the other staff.
5) Top rated show in timeslot. for broadcast. Yes, Faux News has higher and their show is mindless crap... but they have a virtual monopoly on stupid while the r
Same thing happened to CNN (Score:3)
There just isn't a limitless reservoir of people who haven't figured out the right wing are wrong about basically everything.
The thing is the billionaire is no longer care about profits. They have obtained so much money and power that something being profitable is just a side benefit next to consolidating their p
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I told you guy 100 years ago (Score:2)
This radio thing was just a fad.
Spare me all your tears, pearl-clutching, etc (Score:1, Troll)
So what?! CNN, MSNOW/MSNBC, and others were 100% state-ran media during the Biden and Obama years. And still are, they see themselves as "tHe reSiSTaNce"
Now the Right gets some more air capability and you're losing your shit?
Cry harder. Turnabout is fair play.
The damage done by consistently and solely pushing the Leftist talking points since *checks calendar* at least 2000 has consequences. Take a bath in those consequences.
It's time to start re-equalizing this nation. The Left runs the schools, the me
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so sad (Score:2)
So sad to see yet another buggy whip maker go away.
Advertising killed ~2004 (Score:2)
High speed internet killed traditional "pay per billboard impression" and "pay per active listener" ~2004 and set up the end of most traditional radio, TV, and print media.
Add in that the last generation with a huge steady number of newspaper readers, magazine subscriber, TV watchers, and radio listeners is now 62 to 80 and there is not a lot of engaged persons to sell product to.
The shift is starting, with the past retirement age corporate leaders exiting the workforce allowing the "maintain the status quo