CBS Chief Les Moonves Says Trump's 'Damn Good' For Business
Source: Huff Post
"Sorry. It's a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going."
03/01/2016 05:35 am ET
Nick Visser
Reporter, The Huffington Post
There's a reason why Donald Trump gets more minutes during almost every debate or can seemingly call into "The Late Show" or "The View" whenever he has a racist remark and expect the media to do whatever he likes. According to the head of CBS, the foul-mouthed presidential candidate is "damn good" for the network and the "money's rolling in" thanks to his antics.
Les Moonves, executive chairman and CEO of CBS, made the comments during a speech at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in San Francisco, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"I've never seen anything like this, and this going to be a very good year for us," he said at the event. "Sorry. It's a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going."
The outlet notes Moonves said ad sales this season have been particularly strong, partly due to an election cycle rapt with attacks and "bomb throwing" that keeps Americans interested.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/les-moonves-donald-trump_us_56d52ce8e4b03260bf780275
Proof positive of what we all have been thinking. So the head of a major network admits the truth. Good for business, so if the country gets hurt, (.my words..not his.) - tough shit!
tom_kelly
(962 posts)elljay
(1,178 posts)At least he's not lying and pretending that the Trump coverage is about the "news." I have to give him credit for saying that it is all about the ratings. When you compare the ratings for a reality show trainwreck like Trump with watching important Congressional hearings on CSPAN, it is clear what the American public prefers. If Trump picks Kim Kardashian for a running mate we're toast.....
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)And then became President.
The media and comedians all loved Junior, he was funny and good business, "their business."
Then we all lived through their lies and wars and more.
groundloop
(11,522 posts)I just can't imagine what a T-rump presidency would do to this country, it's terrifying. Yet I keep hearing that repubs have had high voter turnout and that Democratic turnout is low this year. After all the nastiness of the primaries are over we need to get off our collective asses and ensure that we keep repubs out of the White House and reduce their numbers in Congress.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)The networks are going to milk this for all it's worth; it's not like they aren't showing his awful behavior and out-of-control antics. This is what is making them money, but it will surely help Clinton win in the general election.
elljay
(1,178 posts)This is exciting for them. They can run program after program on Hillary's scandals, real and imagined, and it is virtually impossible to keep your eyes off Trump, either because you are so shocked and appalled that this is even happening or you love what he is saying. Imagine the absolute boredom of Bernie Sanders-John Kasich campaign. You'd have Bernie talking about policy instead of tossing juvenile insults and Kasich calmly and maturely underselling exactly how conservative he is. Not gonna sell a lot of ads for those debates.
houston16revival
(953 posts)Mitt led in all the polls
Everything was moving in his direction
State by state he was advancing
Battleground states he was edging ahead
This time they have a true media bloodhound
feeding his narcissism
valerief
(53,235 posts)everyone else.
bulloney
(4,113 posts)Instead of informing and reporting on real news, the MSM gerbils sit back and look for sex, foul language or some other crap and pass it on as "news." And they're more worried about making beaucoup bucks and profits than performing their duty of informing.
That's why I haven't taken the major networks seriously as a credible source of news for over 20 years. And it's filtered down to the local level. Local newscasts these days consist of live reports from some warm & fuzzy event, restaurant reports and how unsanitary they all are, sprinkled in with weather and traffic every 5 minutes. It's just junk.
randr
(12,414 posts)end up in the hands of a few media empires. It is their quadrennial feeding frenzy.
They should be made to recuse themselves from participation.
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atreides1
(16,093 posts)And yet they fired Charlie Sheen for doing pretty much the same thing...
Botany
(70,581 posts)Murrow, Cronkite, Schorr, Kalb, Rather, Sevareid, Rather, and Mike Wallace
were just some of the real journalists who worked at CBS and now you have
Moonves all but saying, "hey it is all about the $$$."
BTW in 2004 Moonves went out of his way to help Karl Rove and W bush by
not standing up for Dan Rather ands the truth about W going AWOL.
AxionExcel
(755 posts)Moonves = Sell-out RepubliStooge
eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)That is all.
PDittie
(8,322 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)They operate over OUR AIRWAVES UNDER LICENSE!!! They think it's funny to play with our elections for profit, F' them!
olddad56
(5,732 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)Very good TV.