CBS: A Week of Bad Calls, Logistical Screwups, and Flying Furniture

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2. CBS, when it was a stand alone corporation,

isolated its news department from machinations by the BOD and corporate honchos, meaning the broadcast mostly sided with the facts for a very long time. That was ended by corpat merger folllowed by corporate mega merger and now the news department is vulnerable to wingnuts at the top. The Republicans have wanted to destroy fact based journalism for a long time and CBS News was their biggest trophy.

They have tried to turn the news and 60 Minutes into Pox News before this with similar results. These are not missteps or blunders, it's all part of the plan. It consistently fails because they turn off the network's traditional centrist to slightly liberal viewers while failing to attract Pox viewers who are brand loyal. Advertisers flee,m the wingnut in charge of dragging them to the far right gets the axe, and a centrist or tepid liberal is brought in quietly to try to clean up the mess.

Likely this will keephappening until antitrust laws can be invoked and media consolidation is undone or media companies of all description are declared public utilities and subject to regulation, at which point megacorporations will become allergic to them and cut them loose.