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MineralMan

(151,599 posts)
3. Or what they thought they wanted.
Fri May 22, 2026, 11:48 AM
Yesterday

I doubt that the destruction of CBS was what they were really after.

She has managed that very nicely, though. Too bad.

My local AM news/talk radio station, WCCO, is switching its hourly news report to ABC. They have had CBS for five minutes at the top of each hour for as long as I can remember. Gone now, and for good. It was innocuous news. No politics. Just the top stories on the hour. ABC will do it just fine, no doubt, but I'm going to miss it.

Who listens to AM radio? Me. People like me. It's on all the time in the background. I tend to listen at the top of most hours, just to make sure I didn't miss some breaking story. I'll miss it, but ABC can do that, too, I suppose.

Bari Weiss has single-handedly wiped CBS off the top of the ratings. Who cares? Millions of people care. The TV is still on all over the USA. People still watch the national evening and morning news on their local CBS station. Or ABC or NBC. By the millions. The audience far exceeds the cable news audience, even now. Far exceeds!

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9 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

She did what they wanted SocialDemocrat61 Yesterday #1
+1 dalton99a Yesterday #2
Or what they thought they wanted. MineralMan Yesterday #3
In the past few Sundays we were on the road so would listen to "60 minutes" on that station question everything Yesterday #11
Yeah, probably not. MineralMan Yesterday #12
I agree LR3 Yesterday #8
They will blame it on Biden rurallib Yesterday #4
Ha! Lol. Joinfortmill Yesterday #19
Turn off C-BS, they will get the message. Dawson Leery Yesterday #5
Yah, but the local broadcast news that is the best MineralMan Yesterday #6
I will still warch WCCO for local news dflprincess Yesterday #14
Didn't she get 'kicked upstairs'? EYESORE 9001 Yesterday #7
My local am radio station switched from CBS to being an ABC affiliate. SidneyR Yesterday #9
Yes. So did mine. MineralMan Yesterday #10
CBS News radio shut down today. Don't know why. kerry-is-my-prez 23 hrs ago #24
They want this disaster swong19104 Yesterday #13
Larry Ellison is who he is. LuvLoogie Yesterday #15
You know, MineralMan, the sad thing to me about the whole Weiss debacle is that PatrickforB Yesterday #16
She didn't screw up. She succeeded. Iggo Yesterday #17
Hope their entire ship goes done. They chose the fascist. Fuck 'e m. Joinfortmill Yesterday #18
She is doing a great job IbogaProject Yesterday #20
Why buy Warner Bros. of course, silly Ponietz Yesterday #21
The "Disaster" is what her boss wanted ThoughtCriminal Yesterday #22
Disasters are successes to MAGAts. live love laugh 23 hrs ago #23
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