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still_one

(92,183 posts)
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 10:35 AM Apr 2017

How times have changed. CBS then:





and CBS now:

"Donald Trump’s candidacy might not be making America great, CBS Chairman Les Moonves said Monday, but it’s great for CBS.

"It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS," Moonves said at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco, according to The Hollywood Reporter — perfectly distilling what media critics have long suspected was motivating the round-the-clock coverage of Trump's presidential bid.


http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/02/les-moonves-trump-cbs-220001


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How times have changed. CBS then: (Original Post) still_one Apr 2017 OP
A microcosm of America itself world wide wally Apr 2017 #1
so true still_one Apr 2017 #3
Quoting Shakespeare? C'mon, he's pandering to the literate. Jim__ Apr 2017 #2
Lol still_one Apr 2017 #4
The Moonves quote is a year old but it's still irritating. Gidney N Cloyd Apr 2017 #5

Jim__

(14,075 posts)
2. Quoting Shakespeare? C'mon, he's pandering to the literate.
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 11:41 AM
Apr 2017

We need Glenn Beck, Tucker Carlson - telling it like it is.

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