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Here is a news story from CBS News about a CBS News contributor becoming a CBS News correspondent. Now ain't that just a little bit self-serving, CBS?
Ed O'Keefe joins CBS News as political correspondent
CBS News, Mar 8 2018 10:40 AM
Ed O'Keefe is joining CBS News as a political correspondent based in Washington, DC. He will report for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms effective Sunday, April 15. O'Keefe has reported on congressional and presidential politics for The Washington Post since 2008. He joined CBS News as a contributor in 2017.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ed-okee...correspondent/
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Fox News, of course, is Donald Trump's favorite channel because they never say anything bad about Trump and they never say anything good about Democrats.
Parents of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich sue Fox News over story claiming he leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks during 2016 Presidential campaign
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/seth-ric...ue-over-story/
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CBS has the streaming news channel CBSN. Fox recently announced plans for an online channel. Now NBC is joining the battle, hoping to attract younger viewers.
NBC plans online news channel
http://www.latimes.com/business/Holl...314-story.html
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Peters should have realized two years ago that Fox News is a "propaganda machine" for Trump. Their anchors and reporters seldom say anything bad about Trump, and Sean Hannity has always been Trump's number-one cheerleader.
Lt. Col. Ralph Peters says he's 'ashamed' of Fox News and leaves his role as analyst
Los Angeles Times, Mar 20 2018 4:20 PM
Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, a longtime analyst for Fox News, told colleagues he is done with the network which he says has become "a propaganda machine" for President Trump. Peters said in an email he chose not to renew his contract as a paid contributor with Fox News on March 1 because he was "ashamed" of the network. He said the 21st Century Fox-owned cable channel has gone from being a valuable conservative voice to "assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers."
http://www.latimes.com/business/holl...320-story.html
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Once again, CBS News gets an exclusive story about CBS News:
CBS News, BBC News open first joint bureau in Johannesburg
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...-johannesburg/
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I like this sarcastic post made today by Chicago news media blogger Robert Federer -- a man after my own heart.
"Too bad the Sun-Times had to mar the rollout of its redesigned newspaper and website Wednesday. In a letter to readers explaining the makeover, the Sun-Times took a gratuitous shot at the Chicago Tribune for recent layoffs in its newsroom. 'Our competitors just laid off their lone reporter in the nation’s capital, as well as their White Sox and Blackhawks beat writers,' the paper gloated. 'Meanwhile, here at the Chicago Sun-Times we keep giving you trusted voices on those beats.' Hey, it’s not as if the struggling tabloid hasn’t laid off scores of journalists. People in glass houses?"
http://www.robertfeder.com/2018/03/2...arks-spot-b96/
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Six advertisers have pulled out and more will follow. These pro-gun conservative commentators need to understand that these kids are sick of all the gun violence and the refusal of Congress to take a!ction. They are not going away. They will soon be old enough to vote and run for public office.
Advertisers ditch Fox News' Laura Ingraham after she mocks Parkland survivor and gun-control activist David Hogg
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...kland-activist
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"Six advertisers have pulled out and more will follow," I wrote above. The total is now 11 -- and right-wingers are starting a boycott of the companies that are boycotting Ingraham's program. And the beat goes on.
11 advertisers drop Laura Ingraham while fans launch #IStandWithLaura
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/laura-i...laura-hashtag/
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Laura Ingraham's mocking of a Parkland shooting survivor and gun control advocate has now cost her 15 advertisers. She's on vacation this week but the vacation was planned long before she made her nasty comments. How convenient!
Advertisers bail as Laura Ingraham goes on vacation
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/laura-i...s-on-vacation/
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The Redstones own 10.3% of CBS but hold almost 80% of the votes. The Redstones favor a CBS-Viacom merger. CEO Les Moonves is opposed. Moonves says he'll resign unless CBS takes away the Redstones' voting rights. If he resigns, he'll get a $180,000,000 payout. The Redstones say they have control over that payout. What a gripping television series all this drama would make!
Shari Redstone sues CBS, taking aim at Chairman/CEO Leslie Moonves
http://www.latimes.com/business/holl...529-story.html
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What did I say above about "drama"? The Redstone-Moonves feud just got some more drama:
CBS shareholders sue Shari Redstone, National Amusements
Los Angeles Times, May 31 2018 2:50 PM
A CBS stockholder group in Pennsylvania filed a class-action lawsuit in Delaware today, an attempt to open the legal floodgates in the bitter dispute between the venerable broadcasting company and its controlling shareholder family, the Redstones. The lawsuit asks a judge to rule that nonvoting shareholders are entitled to a special dividend that would give them a voice in CBS’s affairs. CBS has two classes of stock but only the Class A shares have a vote.
The Redstone family, which owns 10.3% of CBS, has 80% of the Class A voting shares. The Pennsylvania fund owns Class B stock. The lawsuit also alleges that Shari Redstone, who serves as CBS’s vice chair, has breached her fiduciary duties to Class B shareholders. The action was filed by the Westmoreland County Employees’ Retirement System against the Redstone family investment vehicle, National Amusements Inc., Shari Redstone and two board members who have been aligned with her. The latest lawsuit comes just two days after National Amusements sued CBS, arguing that the company’s board members are overstepping their authority.
http://www.latimes.com/business/holl...531-story.html
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President Trump is opposed to football players kneeling during the National Anthem to protest the mistreatment of black people by police. He canceled the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles' visit to the White House -- and then his favorite cable channel presented some "fake news."
Fox News apologizes for using photos of Eagles players praying and implying they were protesting
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...605-story.html
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This is an excerpt of an opinion piece in today's Los Angeles Times. The complete column is linked below. Goldberg makes some excellent points -- but I expect things will get worse before they get better.
Fox News is a danger to this country — but it's just a small part of a bigger crisis
Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, Jun 7 2018
Ralph Peters, who offered regular military analysis on Fox News for a decade, finally concluded what many of us had long ago realized — and, having done so, he quit the network in disgust in March. On Wednesday, he went on CNN to explain himself further: The network, he said, was doing a "great, grave disservice to our country" and had become a "destructive propaganda machine" for President Trump. Alisyn Camerota, a former Fox News anchor, said today that Peters' experience mirrored her own: "I too was upset about the blurring of the lines between propaganda and journalism."
But it would be a terrible mistake to think that Fox alone is the problem — or even that Fox and Trump are the whole problem. The crisis facing the nation is much bigger and broader. We live in an era in which Americans are being encouraged to disregard or dismiss factual information, research and established sources of information in order to stay in ideological comfort zones. Trump encourages this, as does Fox, but Republicans in Congress do it too.
We live in an era in which the line between truth and opinion is being blurred; this happens on the left as well as the right. We live in an era of media polarization, in which too many people get their information from one-sided sources. This is a recipe for an increasingly divided country in which political, social and cultural differences grow deeper and rational compromise becomes impossible. Fixing this problem will require more than the resignation of a few Fox News employees.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol...htmlstory.html
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Soon-Shiong, who became a billionaire in the biopharmaceutical industry, is vowing to revitalize the newspapers, even as they continue to lose readers -- and advertisers -- to Facebook, Google, Twitter and other sites. Good luck!
Historic sale of the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune to billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong to close on Monday
http://www.latimes.com/business/holl...616-story.html
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A former Trump campaign chairman and current Fox News commentator accused a black Democratic strategist of being out of his "cotton-picking mind." A racist bigot working at Fox News -- Who ever would have guessed!
Fox News commentator apologizes for racist remark
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/24/medi...ark/index.html
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Most newspapers have had to deal with declines in circulation and advertising, but if Tronc (formerly Tribune Publishing) hopes to revitalize its newspapers, this is not the way to do it:
New York Daily News layoffs slash famed tabloid's newsroom by 50%
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-yor...ewsroom-by-50/
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Almost daily our egotistical, narcissistic, thin-skinned President lashes out at any reporter, politician or news outlet that dares to criticize him. He attacks almost every newspaper and news channel as "fake news" -- except, of course, for Fox News, which seldom says anything negative about him. He even hired former Fox News co-president Bill Shine as his communications director.
Today Trump and Shine barred a CNN reporter from attending a press event because she had previously asked Trump questions about Michael Cohen and Vladimir Putin and he thought the questions were "inappropriate." The reporter appeared this evening on CNN with Anderson Cooper, who is justifiably outraged at the way Trump disrespects the First Amendment and freedom of the press and tries to silence his critics. These are the tactics of a dictator.
CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins barred from covering open press event at White House
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kaitlan...ay-2018-07-25/
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The Washington Post reveals the many ways Trump would like to punish reporters who dare to ask him questions that make him comfortable. Trump constantly calls the news media "fake news" and "the enemy of the people." He denounces reporters as "dishonest people" and wants to punish them. Almost all the Republicans keep silent while Trump turns into a megalomaniacal dictator. Sad!
Venting about the press, Trump has repeatedly sought to ban reporters who ask 'impertinent questions'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...9xVv?ocid=AMZN
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As I've said many times, in a few more years people will be watching television everywhere except on a television set.
CBS to launch CBSN Local streaming service to expand digital reach
CBS News, Aug 1 2018 6:!0 PM
CBS is launching a new streaming service targeting local audiences modeled on CBSN, the 24/7 streaming service launched in 2014. The new service, known as CBSN Local, is a joint initiative from CBS Television Stations and CBS Interactive, both divisions of CBS Corporation.
CBSN Local will launch in the New York City market in the fourth quarter of this year before expanding into the Los Angeles market. The New York service will be in partnership with WCBS-TV, the network's flagship station, and WLNY. The Los Angeles version is being developed with KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV. CBSN Local will eventually expand into other major markets with CBS-owned stations.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-to-...digital-reach/
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Once again, CBS News has broken a news story about a CBS News program. How do they do it? And the tribute to a Sunday morning program will air on a Friday. Go figure!
CBS News celebrates 40 years of Sunday Morning with September 14 primetime special, Sunday's Best
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...-sundays-best/