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mdbl

(7,571 posts)
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 12:16 PM Tuesday

CBS News is F'd.



After Colbert I quit watching CBS except for his show until it ends. As far as the news division, never again. A once great icon in journalistic integrity is now nothing better than newsmax.
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CBS News is F'd. (Original Post) mdbl Tuesday OP
The Republican's have gone all in popsdenver Tuesday #1
The Late Great Edward R. Murrow Predicted This DAngelo136 Tuesday #2

popsdenver

(648 posts)
1. The Republican's have gone all in
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 02:51 PM
Tuesday

on CBS, because they were trying to attempt to mostly do facts on issues. The other networks, NBC, ABC, FOX were all leaning heavily, if not completely to the right, and excluding anything from the left.

DAngelo136

(342 posts)
2. The Late Great Edward R. Murrow Predicted This
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 03:22 PM
Tuesday

In 1958, Edward R. Murrow gave a speech at Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) and this speech warned about the corrosive effects that commercialization had at that time on the news division and would have in the future. This was his "Wires and Lights In A Box" speech. He was fired from CBS not long after giving this speech. Edward R. Murrow was prescient.



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