Dead Air- Why CBS should shutter its news division (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Slate ^ | April 23, 2008 | Troy Patterson

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By the end of this decade or shortly thereafter, television networks as we know them today will cease to exist. They will be just another url on the world wide web competing against millions of others.

Network evening newscasts will go dark after the '08 elections and their news divisions disbanded.

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[Izzy Dunne]

Network evening newscasts will go dark after the '08 elections

Do we have to wait until then?

How can we speed the process up?

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Taking a cue, I propose that it is time for CBS News to be put down, in the Old Yeller sense of the phrase.

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[TYVets]

After all the lies and dibble CBS News has broadcast since the 1960’s I think it is only fair they die a slow death.

Pay Couric her 15 mil for the next 5 or 10 years and bleed slowly with an inferior product.

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Perhaps the best dialogue of the entire movie:

"I'll do it Ma. He's my dog."

[freerepublic_or_die]

Yeah, CBS News has never been quite the same since the ‘What’s the frequency, Kenneth’ guy, left.

[Liberty2007]

maybe they are realizing we dont like these morning show chuckle factories/celeb worship and want real news in the morning. I hope fox news listens and dumps faux and friends.

[Renfield]

"...A brief word about CBS Sunday Morning: While it is obvious that this network's coverage and presentation of current events is geared toward old people, the target audience of Charles Osgood's show seems to be already dead—peacefully so...."

"..Ben Stein, the actor and economist, came on to do a commentary on the mortgage crisis in which he argued that federal funds should be devoted to aiding the dogs and cats disadvantaged by the fallout. Either this was exquisitely subtle satire, or everyone involved with the segment has lost his mind..."

If I didn't know better, I'd suspect this piece was written by Ann Coulter. It's good stuff.

[imintrouble]

I can’t resist a little touch of Shadenfreude here.

The network camped on its outdated laurels believing its own PR people far too long, disregarding instant 24-hour news sources, insisting the public stay in the old days of network gods.

Thank heaven it didn’t win its dedication to withholding the news from the people until a ‘convenient time’ for the network.

The people simply passed them by.

[padre35]

I don’t believe that we could do anything that the C..BS news producers are doing to kill of that division any faster.

[Enchante]

CBS has a “news division”???

I hadn’t noticed one.....

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Oooops corrrection to my spelling.

Schadenfreude - corrected.

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Here's the correct dialogue.

“Travis…you know we’ve got to.”

“I know, Ma. But he’s MY dog…I’ll do it.”

[iopscusa]

My thoughts also is to bleed out CBS and then let old commie Walter Conkrite do the last show...where he will confess to aiding in mass murder in Vietnam & Cambodia by his lies on CBS....then he does the honorable thing for once in his life.

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Never ceases to amaze me how this bunch has sat on their butts and let this network go to hell when everyone knew and still knows what the problem is. This is what happens when liberals are left in charge of multi million dollar operations or government budgets. I’m sure at this very moment they are hot at trying to find another brain dead liberal to take over and prove they are right. If they try real hard I think they could probably get Kieth Olberman, he would be a perfect fit.

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For the amount of money they are paying Katie, they could buy FoxNEWS lock, stock and barrel, and put out a #1 rated newscast starting Monday.

[TYVets]

My thoughts also is to bleed out CBS and then let old commie Walter Conkrite do the last show...

where he will confess to aiding in mass murder in Vietnam & Cambodia by his lies on CBS....

then he does the honorable thing for once in his life.

A fitting ending for CBS News, I would watch that show.