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Justice

(7,242 posts)
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 06:40 AM Sunday

CBS tone deaf to air town hall as Brown Unv. Shooting unfolding

As news was coming out about Brown University shooting, CBS broke away from local coverage to air Town Hall with Erica Kirk.

Seemed highly tone deaf.

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CBS tone deaf to air town hall as Brown Unv. Shooting unfolding (Original Post) Justice Sunday OP
Because they don't care..... Lovie777 Sunday #1
Deliberate, Undoubtedly. "Remember The Real Victim: Charlie." ColoringFool Sunday #2
.. SocialDemocrat61 Sunday #3
Leni Riefenstahl at least had talent. Lacking in this incarnation Walleye Sunday #4
Bari Weiss JBTaurus83 Sunday #5
CBS, and much of the MSM is gone. Between David Ellison and Bari Weiss, none of this is surprising. The network that lostincalifornia Sunday #6
Legacy networks are disappearing Bluetus Sunday #9
Erica who? Emile Sunday #7
They want to exploit one death to punish liberals who did nothing newdeal2 Sunday #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Midnight Writer Sunday #10
Why was anyone watching CBS to begin with? Johonny Sunday #11

JBTaurus83

(839 posts)
5. Bari Weiss
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 07:51 AM
Sunday

Will turn CBS into another Bill Maher type of program. It’s likely why Bill was summoned to meet the Fuhrer after he returned. I actually wouldn’t be surprised to see many who bent the knee show up at CBS regularly.

lostincalifornia

(4,879 posts)
6. CBS, and much of the MSM is gone. Between David Ellison and Bari Weiss, none of this is surprising. The network that
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 07:55 AM
Sunday

once led against McCarthyism and hate, is now normalizing it.


Bluetus

(2,157 posts)
9. Legacy networks are disappearing
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 09:54 AM
Sunday

They only have two assets now:

1) Sports/Olympics programming
2) habits of older Americans (like over 70) to still watch the Milquetoast evening news.

And the sports programming is going away to Amazon, Youtube, Google and the leagues' own streaming networks. I would not be surprised if, by the next summer Olympics, more than half the coverage is on streaming services and not the networks.

Of course, the Ellisons also own some streaming, but that is like "owning the Internet". It is hard to get more than a 0,001% share. If you put all of Meta's channels together, it is about 7% of Internet traffic, but that is not like a traditional network. There is no central programming, only central algorithms to bias the ads you see.

The biggest podcast (Joe Rogan) is way less than 1% of podcast traffic.

Broadcasting is dead. The world is narrowcasting now.

newdeal2

(4,687 posts)
8. They want to exploit one death to punish liberals who did nothing
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 08:36 AM
Sunday

And ignore constant killings of average people to avoid addressing gun violence.

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