As the democrat party management operatives drive CNN credibility and ratings into the ground, one would hope that stockholders become livid and litiginous at the liberals destroying the franchises.
One would hope that, I agree. Perhaps, though, most of the stockholders are of the same ilk, and have already divested, whether secretly or in majority or not, and see the handwriting on the wall and have made HUGH donations to freerepublic!....BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!.........all kidding aside, I don't think major stockholders in the MSM are going to lose. Not right now. If that were true, all you would see on cbs is the "eye" and no transmission. They're cooking something up. Too much money involved...
FMCDH(BITS)
I'm waiting for a conservative legal foundation to sue the socks off of the FCC and its licensees. The tort? Broadcasting the "results" of the FL 2000 election before the last ballot was legally cast. In the hypothetical situation where time stood still while Republicans (alone) were able to know what Jeb Bush knew, but not knowing the outcome, how much would the Republican Party have been able to raise in a week (no campaign contribution limits) to buy off broadcast journalism from calling FL for Gore before the polls were closed in the conservative Panhandle area?I put it to you that in that hypothetical situation Republicans would have raised a billion dollars. That call was
That call was a tort.
- factually incorrect, and
- the wrong thing to do, in principle.
And of course CBS has plenty to answer for on Rathergate; the FCC is culpable for making CBS smug in the idea that it is always open season on Republicans, especially in the last month of an election campaign.
The truth is that, contrary to all selfrighteous claims,
the country would be better off without broadcast jounalism.