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Rhiannon12866

(244,680 posts)
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 03:30 AM 14 hrs ago

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Bari Weiss



John Oliver discusses the Paramount Skydance merger, how they’ve named Bari Weiss the new Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, and what her editorial history and perspective mean for the future of U.S. journalism. Plus, some notable moments in the history of the Upper West Side. - 10/12/2025.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Bari Weiss (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 14 hrs ago OP
CBS used to have an internal regulation that separated the news Warpy 8 hrs ago #1
I remember when they fired Dan Rather, they biggest mistake they ever made, IMO Rhiannon12866 7 hrs ago #2
O I applaud you, Warpy! some_of_us_are_sane 6 hrs ago #3
Same here! And CBS News has never been the same again... Rhiannon12866 5 hrs ago #4
Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe 2 hrs ago #5

Warpy

(114,021 posts)
1. CBS used to have an internal regulation that separated the news
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 09:23 AM
8 hrs ago

from their other departments. That disappeared about six or seven mergers ago.

This isn't the first time they've stuffed their collective heatds down the metaphorical right wing toilet. After they set Dan Rather up to screw him out of everything he'd worked for and brought in Katie Couric, they tipped their right wing hand by making Couric's first guest on her evening news show (a first in itself, guests are not news) the execrable gasbag Limbaugh.

People who were hoping for another Uncle Walter switched off and the new format didn't last long and they finally gaveup and brought in some real news people for a while. They were largely muzzled, but they were there.

Right wingers wilkl simply never understand that their opinions are not news and that sensationalism without context isn't news, either. It's clickbait and as such, doesn't belong on broadcast airwaves.

I gave up on having them figure it out. I turned them all off in 2004 and haven't found a reason to turn them back on.

Rhiannon12866

(244,680 posts)
2. I remember when they fired Dan Rather, they biggest mistake they ever made, IMO
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 10:26 AM
7 hrs ago

And I sure agree, opinions are not news.

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,252 posts)
3. O I applaud you, Warpy!
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 11:13 AM
6 hrs ago
"...they set Dan Rather up to screw him out of everything he'd worked for and brought in Katie Couric...Couric's first guest on her evening news show (a first in itself, guests are not news) the execrable gasbag Limbaugh."


Truer words were never spoken, unless they are Rather's own:
"Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country".
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