| ▲ | lenerdenator 4 hours ago |
| Well, what can the average person do to get CBS to air it? |
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| ▲ | Jordan-117 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| You can call your local affiliate to complain: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-tv-stations-affiliates/ Better yet, call their advertisers: https://stopmediabiasnow.com/cbs-advertisers/ Watch/like/comment/share the YouTube upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59A More indirectly, you can support the Talarico campaign (fueling a financial Streisand effect could help discourage similar moves in the future): https://secure.actblue.com/donate/jt-tx-web |
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| ▲ | munk-a 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| CBS is responding rationally (cowardly, certainly, but also rationally) to an administration that is misusing the tools of state. Change the administration. |
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| ▲ | georgemcbay 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > CBS is responding rationally (cowardly, certainly, but also rationally) to an administration that is misusing the tools of state. CBS is complicit. The Ellisons bought it and installed Bari Weiss for this very purpose of being a (very) lightly camouflaged state media. |
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| ▲ | davidw 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think corporate media is mostly lost. We need to build something new. Pay attention to things like The Bulwark or Liberal Currents. It's really early days for all that, so who knows where things go, but people like Bezos would rather destroy media outlets than sell them to someone who would allow them to speak out against the regime. |
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| ▲ | renegade-otter 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I have been The Bulwark listener/subscriber since day one. Those people are keeping me sane. That said, their day will come. Just like in Russia, after the low-hanging fruit is cut, the state will come for The Bulwark and Steve Jobs's widow, because The Atlantic is going be get increasingly annoying. | | |
| ▲ | davidw 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is doomerism, and I get the pull of it, but I have been trying to avoid it lately, because at the end of the day, it is doing the work of the fascists for them. It is "complying in advance" to prematurely admit defeat. We are not Russia. |
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| ▲ | jauntywundrkind 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Liberal Currents is great. Bulwark is too, but I want to remind people that they are a center-right publication. Yes they hate the hell out of the infernal despicable corrupt sodden actions now, and are quite eloquent & good calling for some moral character & values. But they're still on the right, and crucially in writing in because sometimes people don't actually know that. Do read/listen! But please be aware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bulwark_(website) (In case it's not obvious Liberal Currents is quite left.) | | |
| ▲ | davidw 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sure, this is correct. But... these are strange times. I'm old enough to remember Bill Kristol the neocon from the Iraq war days and the other day he was quoting Chuck Schumer on Blue Sky saying "Abolish ICE!". Me from 2002 would have really struggled with that one. |
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| ▲ | justin66 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They'll respond to a loss of business or reputational damage. Reputational damage is a less useful tool today, when so many of the people in power at CBS have personal reasons for wanting to curry favor with the administration. So, loss of business: simply boycotting or changing the channel can help. |
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| ▲ | etchalon 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You can't get CBS to air it, but you can let people know not to watch CBS. |
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| ▲ | tomwheeler 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | And eventually, future calculations from CBS about whether they have more to lose by suppressing the story or airing it will favor the latter. Or so few people will still watch CBS that their business fails. Either way, it's a win. |
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