CBS RADIO HEAD ORDERS 'MUST CARRY' TO STATIONS FOR CLINTON BOOK SPECIAL

Drudge ^ | 6/14/04 | Drudge

[Martins kid]

Important to maintain your standards.

[longtermmemmory]

How much you want to bet that Clinton's appearances will include "MUST BUY". It will be like her heinousness.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I have a policy at my paper. I don't buy the news.

I have the same policy as a consumer of news.

I refuse to get my news from a source that has a vested interest in selling me something. That's why I have a browser open to FreeRepublic.com all day long.

[longtermmemmory]

Will they disclose this is a 1hour radio infomercial for a book the corporation owns? probably not.

If they keep this up it will be heir of Reagan vs. heir of Clinton.

BTW I think Bush killed teh anti-civility complainers.

[potlatch]

"I can't wait for the callers," said one CBS radio suit.

I can't either, I hope a lot of anti-Clinton people call in and give them the excitement they deserve!

[Military family member]

I don't have a vested interest in selling you anything other than my paper itself.

I have a vested interest in selling advertising to my clients. They have a vested interest in selling.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

LOL And the DNC has already made it a blockbuster by buying a million copies to hand out like they did for Hillary.

[Calvin Locke]

Will they disclose this is a 1hour radio infomercial

From a posting a week or so ago, maybe even from Drudge Radio, the plan is to chop the abridged audio book in to tiny pieces
and feed mini segments in with the regular news-breaks.

It might work. At the risk of CBS Radio alienating listeners.

Freepers complain about the endless self promotion of Hannity and Savage's books. Now, the non-talk radio
audience will be changing stations or offing the power.

I got sucked in to Pompeii last year, via the BBC, and will buy it once it's in paperback. But I think that was from a couple of 10 minute segments.

I want to see it fail, disdain for Clinton aside, just because a news organization is prostituting itself in the cause
of non-news over self-promotion.

I already avoid Viacom products whenever convenient and possible. If I hear Clinton stuff on the radio, I will turn it off.

I stopped listening to Limbaugh when he went through his over-marketing of his ventures du jour almost 10 years ago.

Yes, Limbaugh over-sensitized me to such games.

I think I need a shower just from rambling about the Clinton Broadcasting Service.

[Calvin Locke]

Oops. "the plan is " ==> "the plan was "

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I have a vested interest in selling advertising to my clients.

I'm not speaking specifically to you but more to what I see on the Boob Toob and in major metro newspapers.

They have an interest in selling space for advertising, yes. How do they make that space more attractive to potential clients to lure in more business? That's where we get to the 'slippery slope' territory and 'the news' becomes something else than just 'the news'.