How Will CBS/Paramount Deal with the Bari Weiss Disaster?

[MineralMan]

I can hardly wait to see. She has screwed up the job she was unqualified to hold. Badly. CBS is on a steep downhill roll.

How long will they pretend they're going to keep her in that position? When will we hear about her being replaced?

Bye, Bye Bari!

[SocialDemocrat61]

1. She did what they wanted

[dalton99a]

2. +1

[MineralMan]

3. Or what they thought they wanted.

I doubt that the destruction of CBS was what they were really after.

She has managed that very nicely, though. Too bad.

My local AM news/talk radio station, WCCO, is switching its hourly news report to ABC. They have had CBS for five minutes at the top of each hour for as long as I can remember. Gone now, and for good. It was innocuous news. No politics. Just the top stories on the hour. ABC will do it just fine, no doubt, but I'm going to miss it.

Who listens to AM radio? Me. People like me. It's on all the time in the background. I tend to listen at the top of most hours, just to make sure I didn't miss some breaking story. I'll miss it, but ABC can do that, too, I suppose.

Bari Weiss has single-handedly wiped CBS off the top of the ratings. Who cares? Millions of people care. The TV is still on all over the USA. People still watch the national evening and morning news on their local CBS station. Or ABC or NBC. By the millions. The audience far exceeds the cable news audience, even now. Far exceeds!

[question everything]

11. In the past few Sundays we were on the road so would listen to "60 minutes" on that station

until we got home.

No longer, I suppose.

[MineralMan]

12. Yeah, probably not.

Anyhow, 60 Minutes has been way watered down since Bari stepped in. Nice, feel-good stories. Not what it used to be at all.

[LR3]

8. I agree

"She has screwed up the job she was unqualified to hold"

Did she, though? Pretty sure her job was to destroy CBS News as a trusted source of information.

Mission Accomplished.

[rurallib]

4. They will blame it on Biden

They would never have hired her if Biden hadn't done such a good job

[Joinfortmill]

19. Ha! Lol.

[Dawson Leery]

5. Turn off C-BS, they will get the message.

[MineralMan]

6. Yah, but the local broadcast news that is the best

in the Twin Cities is on the local CBS affiliate, WCCO. So, that's on and will stay on. We watch something else when the national news comes on. Local TV news on the broadcast channels has little to to with the Network. It's local. I don't want to punish WCCO for what corporate CBS does.

So, no. You can do that, though, if you like.

[dflprincess]

14. I will still warch WCCO for local news

But I've switched to ABC for national. I tend to listen to AM 950 most the time but will switch to 'CCO for Twins games and weather.

[EYESORE 9001]

7. Didn't she get 'kicked upstairs'?

Oversight or somesuch corporate drone position, as I understand. If owners keep deferring to her decisions, they will rue the day they decided to keep her around.

[SidneyR]

9. My local am radio station switched from CBS to being an ABC affiliate.

They still play the same FOX hate programs in the afternoon, though.

[MineralMan]

10. Yes. So did mine.

But WCCO isn't a right wing station so much. Tries to stay neutral.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

24. CBS News radio shut down today. Don't know why.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cbs-news-radio-last-day/

It been around forever

[SidneyR]

25. Sabotaged by the fascists.

They can't stand independent news.

[swong19104]

13. They want this disaster

I don’t know what is their next step, but destruction of a venerable institution is part and parcel with the American Taliban. And indeed, just like the Taliban, who destroyed priceless artifacts and historical relics in the Middle East, these troglodytes are willing to destroy things of value here in the USA.

They might know the price of a thing, but have no concept of the value of the thing.

[LuvLoogie]

15. Larry Ellison is who he is.

No decision of his will be good for any institution. Hell only fuck up CBS more

[PatrickforB]

16. You know, MineralMan, the sad thing to me about the whole Weiss debacle is that

instead of not hiring her in the first place because she is an ideologue, they did hire her because like her, the CEO of Paramount is a Trumper. This should never have been allowed to happen, but it reflects our culture, which encourages and rewards sociopathic behavior.

That is why she should never even have been hired, nor should the Paramount CEO. Trump is a loser because more people are waking up to his disgusting corruption and grift daily.

But, no.....no.....that is all fine. But she is impacting shareholder PROFITS, for God's sake! Why, losing money can't be allowed! We've got to get rid of Bari...

See what I mean. Sure, they will get rid of her, but for the wrong reasons.

[Iggo]

17. She didn't screw up. She succeeded.

[Joinfortmill]

18. Hope their entire ship goes done. They chose the fascist. Fuck 'e m.

[IbogaProject]

20. She is doing a great job

She is diligently protecting our supreme baby leader from getting his feelings hurt, even if Mr Colbert never mentioned him by name.

[Ponietz]

21. Why buy Warner Bros. of course, silly

There is no money in news.

[ThoughtCriminal]

22. The "Disaster" is what her boss wanted

Ratings are not important. What's important to them is that stories do not get exposed.

[live love laugh]

23. Disasters are successes to MAGAts.

[RandySF]

26. With a promotion.

[bucolic_frolic]

27. CBS is now the Edsel

When the money stops, things will change.

[Ilikepurple]

28. CBS may hold an important place in the hearts of us aging DUers, but not so much in Paramount Skydance portfolio

Most of our trusted news sources are now owned by corporations that don’t need them to be profitable as much as they need them to spread misinformation, or at the least control the magnitude and manner that real information is available. They are much more concerned about how changes in taxation and regulation could affect the rest of their assets and asset acquisitions. Other trusted sources of scale may emerge, but in the meantime it’s going to be difficult to know what information to trust. These decisions will only get more complex with the widespread use of AI which will both make it easier to create your own news and harder to determine whether it has been properly sourced. If CBS and CNN lose viewership but no longer report independently from GOP talking points, I think the Ellisons will consider that a win that they can afford.

[Kaleva]

31. CBS News wasn't profitable in the early years

Some of the profits made from CBS’s regular tv shows was used to support the news department

[Ilikepurple]

34. I don't think any of the broadcast news divisions were profitable in the 50s and 60s

I’m not a broadcast tv historian, but I believe broadcast news was initiated both as a service to attract viewers to other programming on their channel and a way to satisfy the “public interest, convenience, and necessity” requirement first laid out in Communications Act of 1934. They didn’t need them to be profitable if it allowed their affiliates to keep their broadcasting licenses and attracted viewers to their daytime and prime time lineups. Either way, the news served a function that went beyond protecting its corporate owners’ other holdings or that of its major stockholders. I believe national news content profitability was a secondary concern before the expansion of news programming in the 70s.

[cachukis]

29. They had to repair the fire hydrant outside my condo.

Water off and 48 to 72 hours to flush. Went to daughter's. She summers near Grandfather Mountain in NC.
Her TV system is foreign. Did a little binging, but mostly off.
Even on return home, have kept it off.
Passed a Titanic exhibit/show and remembered one some 30 years ago. Disquieting.
We are in a Titanic predicament.
Some of us will make it. Waiting and watching.
Oblivion and busyness?
Still have to pay attention out of the corner of the eye. Survival is a great motivation.

[Kaleva]

30. They need to fire the person who hired her. David Ellison

CEO of Paramount

[Initech]

33. David Ellison and Jared Kushner both need a one way trip to Mars on a Space X rocket.

[Initech]

32. They'll hire someone even more fascist.

Because it's the definition of insanity - doing the same thing and expecting different results.

[miyazaki]

35. If they're considerate, set up counseling booths outside the boardrooms

Bad joke. TV media is ruthless and awash with sociopaths.

She'll weasel out with that fat check intact, or most of it.