Posted on 11/01/2005 6:33:04 AM PST by Cindy_Cin
The new president of CBS News wants to revive the network's news operation, but according to some analysts, he must first overcome two major obstacles: boredom and bias.
Shawn McManus, head of CBS Sports since 1996, was named president of CBS News on Oct. 28 by Les Moonves, the head of parent company Viacom, and instructed to "break the mold in news."
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If CBS took a center/right position, similar to FoxNEWS, they would land half the broadcast news market overnight. The fact that they refuse to do so shows they are more beholden to their bias than to the shareholders.
Ah,the old "non-apology" apology.
If anyone is offended it is their own fault for being offended.
That is an absolute fact. It seems so simple, but alas, it is their sacred religion that they cling to.
What kills me is that ivory tower people have the big example of success in front of their faces, FOX News. Yet out of their own partisanship they prefer to rearrange the chairs on the titanic instead of making real change and eliminating the extreme and noticable liberal bias.
Mary Mapes still believes the SeeBS 60 minutes was true.
I did that when Letterman had Bill Clinton on a year after the 9/11 attacks.
I didn't see that, but probably would have done the same thing then.....
McManus is a jock (son of Jim McKay). I bet the geezers start bailing out soon rather than work for a jock.
......I bet the geezers start bailing out soon rather than work for a jock......
This business of Geezers is the root of the problem. The audience is old and might not accept any change. The loss of Geezer staff seems likely as you have noted.
Most importantly, CBS can not continue to fund a decent news organization that can actually compete on a daily basis with a half hour format. They can't squeeze enough ads into the limited time to pay for an organization that can compete with cable news. The handwriting is on the wall.......DOOM
It can be easily done, report the TRUTH without BIAS.
Naah, it’d never work…
If he's Jim McKay's son, why is he called McManus?
Why doesn't Fox News go with a nightly newscast and clean their clocks before one of them figures it out?
I agree, put Brit's News on the regular over the air Fox channel and compete head on.
It would be a knife in the heart of the old media. It would be like the Voice of America to the non-cable people, and to those who think FNC is a bunch of whack jobs and don't watch it. Brit Hume they know and trust.
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