Les Moonves (CBS head honcho)

[MsTryska]

someone this morning had posted an article that Les he wouldn't mind considering Jon Stewart for news anchor, becuase it would help get the youth market.



As another poster in that thread mentioned, Les is missing the point entirely. It's not the Youth market that's tuning in, it's the Truth market. they jsut happent o be young.


The way i look at it, CBS is at a crossroads now. What if we started a letter campaign to tell Les that what we want, is zero spin, just the facts, unvarnished truth, not white house propaganda?

[Sequoia]

1. Because....THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!

CBS will just be another mouth piece for that fake human we call our leader.

[MsTryska]

2. but what if they are made to realize there may be big money

in the whole truth thing?

[dbt]

3. There HAS been big money in the whole truth thing for years.

ONE of the ABCCBSCNNNBCFochsNoose borg could have cleaned up just by breaking away from the pack. Call it "going left" if you like, but none of them took the bait.

And when corporations pass up the chance to set themselves apart from their competitors, it's got to involve something bigger than money.

:argh:
dbt

[MsTryska]

6. What could possibly be bigger than money

to a corproation?


hell we get bent over and raped for the bottom line on a regular basis.

[KharmaTrain]

9. Power, Influence, DeRegulation...The Golden Rules

Just follow the money. Right now all the major media conglomerates require government licenses to operate or fall under one form of regulation or another...and know if they blow this regime, or let them get blown, they'll get their next round of deregulation passed which means even greater profits.

Viacom/CBS is sitting on legislation that will allow them to gobble up UPN and buy more local stations...billions have already been transacted pending the FCC rolling over (which they were supposed to do last Spring but didn't, now it'll happen this Spring). Had the Democrats won, it's almost certain that this dereg would have been killed and Viacom/CBS, along with all the major media conglomerates, would have had to sell billions of their property...not only losing whatever revenues those properties were bringing in, but also taking a major hit on their stock price as the market gets very nervous on companies that contract rather than expand.

Moonves has a company that is all over the map...a radio division Mel Karmazin kept as his own private domain...that needs streamlining...a television network that regularly falls behind Faux and even UPN on some nights and local television operations that under-perform compared to NBC and ABC-owned outlets.

Truth and integrity are wonderful when you are making big profits or that's what the public demands. Unfortunately, we live in a short-attention span society that is ignorantly and arrogantly selfish...and CBS is no different. Given the option of truths or profits, there's not even a contest. I expect more regime ass-kissing than ever with Karamzin (a * hater) gone and Sumner Redstone, a strong Conservative, really calling all the shots.

[NewJeffCT]

4. the problem with that is

Look at what happens when they try to give us no spin news - we get Rathergate, which some think may have been a set-up.

If media out there doesn't toe the Karl Rove line, they could be in for similar crucifixion.

[MsTryska]

5. You really think so?

even if it's no hold barred, in your face, non-compliance?



liek reports on everytime Rove called them?


blurbs on todays talking points?


Daily Show minus the poop jokes and occassional swearing?



what oculd rove and the Bush White house do if some agency strapped their balls on and let the whole world know, all day every day?

[NewJeffCT]

7. they won't get the talking points or calls from Rove

They'll be subjected to relentless criticism from Rush & his ilk on talk radio, and everything that is taken out of context on those shows will then make it to Fox and then CNN and then to MSNBC, NBC and ABC and into print in the NY Post, Washington Times, etc... everything that is slightly questionable that airs on CBS will be subjected to Swift Boat Veterans-like treatment, or Willie Horton treatment.

Nobody can stand up to that much pressure over a length of time.

[MsTryska]

8. mmm. You make a good point.

there has to be a way out of this boondoggle.


i need truth dammit.

[Dr.Phool]

10. I don't think Jon Stewart would lower his principles that far.