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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 No longer valid.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
Friday

They were so much better back in the old days.

samnsara

(18,752 posts)
13. i listen to old time radio at night
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 09:52 AM
Friday

...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

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

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

mdbl

(8,423 posts)
9. Skydance Paramount needs to divest itself of CBS
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 09:26 AM
Friday

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

mdbl

(8,423 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
Friday

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

hay rick

(9,515 posts)
16. We need a New Square Deal.
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 10:23 AM
Friday

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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