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New CBS Head Must Beat Boredom & Bias, Analysts Say
CnsNews ^ | November 1, 2005 | Randy Hall

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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To: Cindy_Cin

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.


21 posted on 11/01/2005 6:58:04 AM PST by gridlock (Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing... Monty Burns)
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To: rhombus
I apologize to anyone who took offense to my poor choice of words. I can assure you I meant none."

Ah,the old "non-apology" apology.

If anyone is offended it is their own fault for being offended.

22 posted on 11/01/2005 7:02:35 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: gridlock

That is an absolute fact. It seems so simple, but alas, it is their sacred religion that they cling to.


23 posted on 11/01/2005 7:04:38 AM PST by Obadiah ( Deuteronomy 6:5)
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To: Cindy_Cin

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.


24 posted on 11/01/2005 7:07:31 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Confirm Alito before year end!)
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To: Arpege92; Baynative; Cindy_Cin

Mary Mapes still believes the SeeBS 60 minutes was true.



So Take a Full Hour: Mapes Claims Docs Can't Be 'Easily Dismissed' as Forgeries

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513164/posts


25 posted on 11/01/2005 7:10:25 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (DUmmies are permanently stuck on stupid.)
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To: Gaffer

I did that when Letterman had Bill Clinton on a year after the 9/11 attacks.


27 posted on 11/01/2005 7:37:24 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

I didn't see that, but probably would have done the same thing then.....


28 posted on 11/01/2005 7:49:58 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Calvin Locke

McManus is a jock (son of Jim McKay). I bet the geezers start bailing out soon rather than work for a jock.


29 posted on 11/01/2005 7:51:02 AM PST by tom paine 2
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To: tom paine 2

......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


30 posted on 11/01/2005 7:59:40 AM PST by bert (K.E. ; N.P . Chicken spit causes flu....... Fox News)
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To: Cindy_Cin
... instructed to "break the mold in news."

It can be easily done, report the TRUTH without BIAS.

Naah, it’d never work…

31 posted on 11/01/2005 8:03:47 AM PST by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty hereā€¦ move on.)
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To: Cindy_Cin

If he's Jim McKay's son, why is he called McManus?


32 posted on 11/01/2005 9:33:55 AM PST by beckett (Amor Fati)
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To: 1Old Pro

Why doesn't Fox News go with a nightly newscast and clean their clocks before one of them figures it out?


33 posted on 11/01/2005 9:50:44 AM PST by Great Caesars Ghost (The Fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the Stars, but in Our Selves.)
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To: Great Caesars Ghost
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.

34 posted on 11/01/2005 10:40:46 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Confirm Alito before year end!)
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To: 1Old Pro

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.


35 posted on 11/01/2005 11:49:06 AM PST by Great Caesars Ghost (The Fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the Stars, but in Our Selves.)
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