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Warpy

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1. CBS used to have an internal regulation that separated the news
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 09:23 AM
13 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.

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