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hay rick

(9,605 posts) Fri Feb 20, 2026, 08:36 AM Feb 20

CBS: an obituary.

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CBS: an obituary. (Original Post) hay rick Feb 20 OP

Their new logo SocialDemocrat61 Feb 20 #1

"Who's the Best? CBS!" Commercial from Decades Ago. No longer valid. raging moderate Feb 20 #2

i listen to old time radio at night samnsara Feb 20 #13

The original American fascist network. hay rick Feb 20 #4

Huge amounts of cheap electricity 303squadron Feb 20 #3

Murrow boys? SocialDemocrat61 Feb 20 #5

Sevareid, Howard K Smith, Collingwood, Hottelet 303squadron Feb 20 #6

Trump/CBS, sometimes it just makes sense when Trump's name gets added to an institution. dem4decades Feb 20 #7

Let's use the Free Market. Don't watch multigraincracker Feb 20 #8

Skydance Paramount needs to divest itself of CBS mdbl Feb 20 #9

They need to be kept away from Warner Bros/CNN. hay rick Feb 20 #10

If we still had an effective antitrust division at the DOJ this would be an issue. mdbl Feb 20 #12

We need a New Square Deal. hay rick Feb 20 #16

The network who canceled The Smothers Brothers' Show. BigmanPigman Feb 20 #11

Yes. Damn them. calimary Feb 20 #14

Acronym RecoveringJournalist Feb 20 #15

CBS. C an't.. B elieve.. S hit...nt mitch96 Feb 20 #17

SocialDemocrat61

(7,645 posts)

1. Their new logo

Reply to hay rick (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 08:40 AM

Feb 20

raging moderate

(4,624 posts)

2. "Who's the Best? CBS!" Commercial from Decades Ago. No longer valid.

Reply to SocialDemocrat61 (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 08:49 AM

Feb 20

They were so much better back in the old days.

samnsara

(18,767 posts)

13. i listen to old time radio at night

Reply to raging moderate (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 10:52 AM

Feb 20

...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.

hay rick

(9,605 posts)

4. The original American fascist network.

Reply to SocialDemocrat61 (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 08:56 AM

Feb 20

CNN is next if the Ellison's get their way.

303squadron

(820 posts)

3. Huge amounts of cheap electricity

Reply to hay rick (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 08:50 AM

Feb 20

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

SocialDemocrat61

(7,645 posts)

5. Murrow boys?

Reply to 303squadron (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 08:57 AM

Feb 20

Edward R and???

303squadron

(820 posts)

6. Sevareid, Howard K Smith, Collingwood, Hottelet

Reply to SocialDemocrat61 (Reply #5)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 09:02 AM

Feb 20

Just to name a few.

dem4decades

(14,057 posts)

7. Trump/CBS, sometimes it just makes sense when Trump's name gets added to an institution.

Reply to hay rick (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 09:20 AM

Feb 20

multigraincracker

(37,651 posts)

8. Let's use the Free Market. Don't watch

Reply to hay rick (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 09:40 AM

Feb 20

or purchase from advertisers.

mdbl

(8,650 posts)

9. Skydance Paramount needs to divest itself of CBS

Reply to hay rick (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 10:26 AM

Feb 20

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

hay rick

(9,605 posts)

10. They need to be kept away from Warner Bros/CNN.

Reply to mdbl (Reply #9)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 10:35 AM

Feb 20

mdbl

(8,650 posts)

12. If we still had an effective antitrust division at the DOJ this would be an issue.

Reply to hay rick (Reply #10)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 10:47 AM

Feb 20

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

hay rick

(9,605 posts)

16. We need a New Square Deal.

Reply to mdbl (Reply #12)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 11:23 AM

Feb 20

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.