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CBS: an obituary. (Original Post) hay rick 16 hrs ago OP
Their new logo SocialDemocrat61 16 hrs ago #1
"Who's the Best? CBS!" Commercial from Decades Ago. No longer valid. raging moderate 16 hrs ago #2
i listen to old time radio at night samnsara 14 hrs ago #13
The original American fascist network. hay rick 16 hrs ago #4
Huge amounts of cheap electricity 303squadron 16 hrs ago #3
Murrow boys? SocialDemocrat61 16 hrs ago #5
Sevareid, Howard K Smith, Collingwood, Hottelet 303squadron 15 hrs ago #6
Trump/CBS, sometimes it just makes sense when Trump's name gets added to an institution. dem4decades 15 hrs ago #7
Let's use the Free Market. Don't watch multigraincracker 15 hrs ago #8
Skydance Paramount needs to divest itself of CBS mdbl 14 hrs ago #9
They need to be kept away from Warner Bros/CNN. hay rick 14 hrs ago #10
If we still had an effective antitrust division at the DOJ this would be an issue. mdbl 14 hrs ago #12
We need a New Square Deal. hay rick 13 hrs ago #16
The network who canceled The Smothers Brothers' Show. BigmanPigman 14 hrs ago #11
Yes. Damn them. calimary 14 hrs ago #14
Acronym RecoveringJournalist 13 hrs ago #15
CBS. C an't.. B elieve.. S hit...nt mitch96 11 hrs ago #17

raging moderate

(4,610 posts)
2. "Who's the Best? CBS!" Commercial from Decades Ago. No longer valid.
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 07:49 AM
16 hrs ago

They were so much better back in the old days.

samnsara

(18,750 posts)
13. i listen to old time radio at night
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 09:52 AM
14 hrs ago

...and the pride CBS took in presenting all those shows and pride in the wide reaching signals that everyone could enjoy everywhere. Now they are Crap and Bull Shit.

303squadron

(801 posts)
3. Huge amounts of cheap electricity
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 07:50 AM
16 hrs ago

Can be created by attaching generators to the Murrow Boys spinning in their graves.

mdbl

(8,394 posts)
9. Skydance Paramount needs to divest itself of CBS
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 09:26 AM
14 hrs ago

So it can go back to serving the public airwaves and not the corporate masters and political whack jobs.

mdbl

(8,394 posts)
12. If we still had an effective antitrust division at the DOJ this would be an issue.
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 09:47 AM
14 hrs ago

But we don't. People have been voting against their best interests for decades now. This is the accumulation of that.

hay rick

(9,508 posts)
16. We need a New Square Deal.
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 10:23 AM
13 hrs ago

I believe we need to run on a program of hyper-aggressive trust-busting. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party proclaimed "to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." The tech bros need to have their oligopoly toys split up into multiple independent entities with restrictions on overlapping ownership.

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