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CBS: an obituary. (Original Post) hay rick Yesterday OP
Their new logo SocialDemocrat61 Yesterday #1
"Who's the Best? CBS!" Commercial from Decades Ago. No longer valid. raging moderate Yesterday #2
i listen to old time radio at night samnsara Yesterday #13
The original American fascist network. hay rick Yesterday #4
Huge amounts of cheap electricity 303squadron Yesterday #3
Murrow boys? SocialDemocrat61 Yesterday #5
Sevareid, Howard K Smith, Collingwood, Hottelet 303squadron Yesterday #6
Trump/CBS, sometimes it just makes sense when Trump's name gets added to an institution. dem4decades Yesterday #7
Let's use the Free Market. Don't watch multigraincracker Yesterday #8
Skydance Paramount needs to divest itself of CBS mdbl Yesterday #9
They need to be kept away from Warner Bros/CNN. hay rick Yesterday #10
If we still had an effective antitrust division at the DOJ this would be an issue. mdbl Yesterday #12
We need a New Square Deal. hay rick Yesterday #16
The network who canceled The Smothers Brothers' Show. BigmanPigman Yesterday #11
Yes. Damn them. calimary Yesterday #14
Acronym RecoveringJournalist Yesterday #15
CBS. C an't.. B elieve.. S hit...nt mitch96 23 hrs ago #17

raging moderate

(4,610 posts)
2. "Who's the Best? CBS!" Commercial from Decades Ago. No longer valid.
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 07:49 AM
Yesterday

They were so much better back in the old days.

samnsara

(18,750 posts)
13. i listen to old time radio at night
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 09:52 AM
Yesterday

...and the pride CBS took in presenting all those shows and pride in the wide reaching signals that everyone could enjoy everywhere. Now they are Crap and Bull Shit.

303squadron

(801 posts)
3. Huge amounts of cheap electricity
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 07:50 AM
Yesterday

Can be created by attaching generators to the Murrow Boys spinning in their graves.

mdbl

(8,402 posts)
9. Skydance Paramount needs to divest itself of CBS
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 09:26 AM
Yesterday

So it can go back to serving the public airwaves and not the corporate masters and political whack jobs.

mdbl

(8,402 posts)
12. If we still had an effective antitrust division at the DOJ this would be an issue.
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 09:47 AM
Yesterday

But we don't. People have been voting against their best interests for decades now. This is the accumulation of that.

hay rick

(9,512 posts)
16. We need a New Square Deal.
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 10:23 AM
Yesterday

I believe we need to run on a program of hyper-aggressive trust-busting. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party proclaimed "to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." The tech bros need to have their oligopoly toys split up into multiple independent entities with restrictions on overlapping ownership.

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