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MineralMan

(151,654 posts)
3. Or what they thought they wanted.
Fri May 22, 2026, 11:48 AM
May 22

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!

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9 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

She did what they wanted SocialDemocrat61 May 22 #1
+1 dalton99a May 22 #2
Or what they thought they wanted. MineralMan May 22 #3
In the past few Sundays we were on the road so would listen to "60 minutes" on that station question everything May 22 #11
Yeah, probably not. MineralMan May 22 #12
I agree LR3 May 22 #8
They will blame it on Biden rurallib May 22 #4
Ha! Lol. Joinfortmill May 22 #19
Turn off C-BS, they will get the message. Dawson Leery May 22 #5
Yah, but the local broadcast news that is the best MineralMan May 22 #6
I will still warch WCCO for local news dflprincess May 22 #14
Didn't she get 'kicked upstairs'? EYESORE 9001 May 22 #7
My local am radio station switched from CBS to being an ABC affiliate. SidneyR May 22 #9
Yes. So did mine. MineralMan May 22 #10
CBS News radio shut down today. Don't know why. kerry-is-my-prez May 22 #24
Sabotaged by the fascists. SidneyR Monday #25
They want this disaster swong19104 May 22 #13
Larry Ellison is who he is. LuvLoogie May 22 #15
You know, MineralMan, the sad thing to me about the whole Weiss debacle is that PatrickforB May 22 #16
She didn't screw up. She succeeded. Iggo May 22 #17
Hope their entire ship goes done. They chose the fascist. Fuck 'e m. Joinfortmill May 22 #18
She is doing a great job IbogaProject May 22 #20
Why buy Warner Bros. of course, silly Ponietz May 22 #21
The "Disaster" is what her boss wanted ThoughtCriminal May 22 #22
Disasters are successes to MAGAts. live love laugh May 22 #23
With a promotion. RandySF Monday #26
CBS is now the Edsel bucolic_frolic Monday #27
CBS may hold an important place in the hearts of us aging DUers, but not so much in Paramount Skydance portfolio Ilikepurple Monday #28
CBS News wasn't profitable in the early years Kaleva Monday #31
I don't think any of the broadcast news divisions were profitable in the 50s and 60s Ilikepurple Monday #34
They had to repair the fire hydrant outside my condo. cachukis Monday #29
They need to fire the person who hired her. David Ellison Kaleva Monday #30
David Ellison and Jared Kushner both need a one way trip to Mars on a Space X rocket. Initech Monday #33
They'll hire someone even more fascist. Initech Monday #32
If they're considerate, set up counseling booths outside the boardrooms miyazaki Monday #35
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