CBS News Shutters Radio Service After Nearly a Century (apnews.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/03/20/2052214/cbs-news-shutters-radio-service-after-nearly-a-century
- Source link: https://apnews.com/article/cbs-radio-news-bari-weiss-11372c28f9557d0b10e329e6c4be339f
> When it went on the air in September 1927, the service was the precursor to the entire network, giving a youthful William S. Paley a start in the business. Famed broadcaster Edward R. Murrow's rooftop reports during the Nazi bombing of London during World War II kept Americans listening anxiously. Today, CBS News Radio provides material to an estimated 700 stations across the country and is known best for its top-of-the-hour news roundups. The service will end on May 22, the network said Friday.
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> "Radio is woven into the fabric of CBS News and that's always going to be part of our history," CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss said in delivering the news to the staff. "I want you to know that we did everything we could, including before I joined the company, to try and find a viable solution to sustain the radio operation." But with the radical changes in the media industry, she said, "we just could not find a way to make that possible."
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> It was unclear how many people will lose their jobs because of the radio shutdown. CBS News was cutting about 6% of its workforce, or more than 60 people, on Friday. It's not the end of turmoil at the network, as parent company Paramount Global is likely to absorb CNN as part of its [2]announced purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/cbs-radio-news-bari-weiss-11372c28f9557d0b10e329e6c4be339f
[2] https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/02/27/1027259/netflix-ditches-deal-for-warner-bros-discovery-after-paramounts-offer-is-deemed-superior
They were big supporters of education (Score:2)
I'm pretty sure they helped my elementary school by their computers and this was back when most elementary didn't have a single one for students to access.
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To quote Inspector Clouseau: Not anymore .
But I thought the phrase went the other way? (Score:4, Informative)
I thought the phrase was "Get woke, go broke" but apparently CBS is suffering terrible trouble after it became right-wing. Wow, I guess it wasn't accurate either. And before anyone questions: Yes, CBS has gone drastically right wing since Bari Weiss took over. And this hasn't just been a subtle level of editorial slant but things like pulling a 60 Minutes episode that was critical of the Trump administration [1]https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/cbs-editor-in-chief-bari-weiss-pulls-60-minutes-piece-on-trump-deportation-policy-hours-before-air [pbs.org] and they killed Colbert's show right after he had an episode critical of Trump and CBS's connection [2]https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/22/stephen-colbert-trump-cbs-bribe [theguardian.com]. In fairness to CBS leadership, this may not be as much about their own political beliefs, and about trying to get antitrust approval for the Skydance and Paramount merger. [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merger_of_Skydance_Media_and_Paramount_Global [wikipedia.org].
[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/cbs-editor-in-chief-bari-weiss-pulls-60-minutes-piece-on-trump-deportation-policy-hours-before-air
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/22/stephen-colbert-trump-cbs-bribe
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merger_of_Skydance_Media_and_Paramount_Global
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> Bari Weiss is right wing? From what perspective? I mean, she doesn’t buy into the Steele Report, supports free speech, and doesn’t think Musk is a Nazi, but that’s hardly “right wing”. Is it? Or does the left wing club require thinking Musk is a Nazi, supporting censorship, and assuming Trump is a Putin super spy?
That Bari Weiss doesn't buy into some of the most extreme ideas of the modern right doesn't make her not right wing, it just shows how utterly off the walls the American right has gone. As for the idea that free speech is a right-wing approach the last year of the Trump administration should make it very clear how much of the right cared only about free speech when it was useful for them. Trying to do things like take away broadcast licenses because one doesn't like what channels have to say [1]https://www.bbc [bbc.com]
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c626ye5gq16o
I told you guy 100 years ago (Score:2)
This radio thing was just a fad.
They are a state-owned media now (Score:4, Insightful)
At least as long as Donald Trump is in the white house. I think we all know the American news media is captured by right wing, pro billionaire, pro Epstein class sources. It's just some of us seem to be okay with that because of reasons...
It seems like about 40% of the country has just given up on objective reality. Eventually there will be consequences for that for them, at least the ones who aren't so old they're going to die before the shit hits the fan.
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CBS is captured by the right-wing? Really?
Re:They are a state-owned media now (Score:5, Informative)
> CBS is captured by the right-wing? Really?
Yes. In order to end a fight with the Trump administration, Bari Weiss was given control of CBS with the stated purpose of "protecting conservative interests".
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No. She's a right winger who happily has taken on the MAGA mantle to get massively rich.
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You can't even get her location right. She's from PA you twat.
As for her opinions, she's a right wing nutjob. Always has been. What left wing opinions does she have beyond vague platitudes towards freedom of speech that do not extend to, say, criticism of Israel's government?
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She was born in Pittsburgh. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] Also feel free to peruse the link and list all her liberal leanings. I'll check back.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss
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You dummies buy the sockpuppets hook line and sinker.
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She literally calls herself a Zionist extremist. Her actions have been in extreme support of Israel and defense of Trump.
The only thing "liberal" about her is that she's a lesbian but there's plenty of rightwing LGBT people out there.
Re:They are a state-owned media now (Score:4, Informative)
Yes. The Atlantic has a great story about it. [1]https://archive.ph/3RGBp [archive.ph]
[1] https://archive.ph/3RGBp
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Hey, Weiss has made a shit ton of money in sucking up to these even richer assholes.
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> Heck, everyone has the news in the palm of their hands.
Until you get some distance from a city. 5G is only good for a mile or so*. 6G will probably be worse.
*I'm getting one bar right now (its raining) and I can see the nearest cell tower from my driveway.
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That was funny. Even if think Bari Weiss is Goebbels and add on Fox you still have ABC, NBC, MS NBC and of course NPR on the hardest of the hard left side.
The we have The Atlantic (graciously accept your subservience to the European elite) and VOX, (total enslavement to the All-Glorious State is the highest calling of human-kind.) There is also the New York Times (The deep state is your friend, trust the deep state.)
If you want to be a subject of an All-Glorious State move to Europe.
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ABC and NBC are centrist corpo-media.
NPR has a legal obligation to be balanced and factual. It has also had one source of funding removed (which ironically, if it survives, may ultimately mean the legal limits on its speech are unconstitutional, leading it to reasonably start siding with its donors. Given how much money it makes from "foundations" designed to launder Billionaire's reputations though, there's no guarantee that'll mean it falls to the left.)
MSNBC doesn't exist, it was spun off as MSNOW. MSNOW