CBS/Viacom is *s Bitch! The "Urban Myth of Black Disenfranchisement"

[McCamy Taylor]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/11/opinion/main666211.shtml

Read it and weep for the network that once was CBS.

:(

[UdoKier]

1. They are hosting a piece from National Review, a RW rag.

It's not a CBS piece. It's a shame they are hosting it, though. It's a piece of tripe.

They are also hosting this, slightly fairer article from the centrist Nation magazine.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/01/opinion/main658540.shtml

[McCamy Taylor]

3. Thanks! I feel much better!

I just about had a coronary when I read that first one.

[mod mom]

2. Truly sad. Media reform must be a priority for us. Shame on them.

[Philly Buster]

7. I don't see how media is reformable

They live or die on ratings and even with ratings tanking, as is the case with CBS, nothing changes

[righteous1]

9. Media reform? Just how do you propose to accomplish that? n/t

[bear425]

13. Reinstate The Fairness Doctrine is a start. n/t

[EVDebs]

4. Makes you wonder what Viacom's quid pro quo from the FCC repubs is n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

5. Being allowed to survive?

[candy331]

6. Goodbye CBS your coffin is awaiting, get ready ABC, NBC and any non

toe the liners, your death awaits also.

[McCamy Taylor]

8. Greg Palast piece rips Viacom a New One!

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=407&row=0

At the top of the network's craven and dead wrong apology to the President is that cyclopsian CBS eyeball. But I suspect that CBS itself has little interest in eating its own flesh. This vile spike-after-broadcast serves only its master, the owner of CBS, Viacom Corporation.

"From a Viacom standpoint, the election of a Republican administration is a better deal. Because the Republican administration has stood for many things we believe in, deregulation and so on…. I vote for Viacom. Viacom is my life, and I do believe that a Republican administration is better for media companies than a Democratic one."

That more-than-revealing statement, made weeks before the presidential election, by Sumner Redstone, billionaire honcho of CBS' parent company, wasn't reported on CBS. Why not? Someone should investigate.

Viacom needs the White House to bless its voracious and avaricious need to bust current ownership and trade rules to add to its global media monopoly. Placing the severed heads of reporters who would question the Bush mythology on the White House doorstep will certainly ease the way for Viacom's ambitions.

[Niche]

10. Just wrote - "take a look at Election Protections video and tell us

that this is a myth." The propaganda is beyond me... I'm so pissed.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

11. We need to start buying back the media companies from the Repubs

and Corporations.

[nodictators]

12. The CBS-hosted article is a vile piece of racist crap

For openers, note that the author, Peter Kirsanow, "is a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights."

Peter K forgot about the Jeb Bush-Glenda Hood Felon Purge 2004. The list was kept secret. There 22,000 black registered voters statewide were put on a list for potential purging as supposed felons. But only 61 Hispanic registered voters statewide were put on the potential purge list.

Furthermore, Gov. Jeb was warned by one of his people not to use the list. CNN and several Florida sued and got so see and copy the list.

In 2000, there were huge rates, ranging up to 30%, of uncounted ballots in majority black precincts in Duval, Gadsden, Palm Beach, and other counties. These three counties, and many of the other counties, had ballots with error-inducing ballot designs. The butterfly ballot was just one of these. There is evidence that suggests that these error-incucing ballot designs were also used as a smokescreen for outright election fraud.

These majority black counties had much lower rates of uncounted ballots in the 1996, 1998, and 2002, general elections. In 2000, counties with high percentages of registered voters who were black were the mostly likely to use the error-inducing ballot designs.

There is much more evidence. Florida 2000 was racist.

[McCamy Taylor]

14. Mary Mapes wanted to expose Jeb's attempts to use Felons Lists AGAIN

in 2004. No wonder Karl Rove and Viacom decided she had to go.


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[spooked911]

15. Uggh--- I don't even want to look. How disgusting.