In an L.A. Times story, made all the more hilarious because the L.A. Times is a vehement George Bush-and-all-that-is-conservative hater, a commentary appears in which an ex-President of liberal CBS News slams CBS News as “too liberal”. He watches Fox News Channel (now available in Canada to Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, and Star*Choice subscribers!), among others.
Still, liberals in Canada think that because it isn’t state-owned and run like the state-run CBC division of the Liberal Party, CBS News, being American and private and therefore evil, is a “right-wing” news show.
Let’s review the liberal mantra: CBC is fair and balanced, because it’s owned by the government and run by Liberal Party appointees, like stations in Cuba and the former Soviet Union, and until recently in Iraq. Fox News Channel, because it allows conservatives and other capitalists to say things without news anchor eyes a-rolling, is vile and biased.
The division’s ex-boss decries a lefty bias and lost credibility.
By Van Gordon Sauter, Van Gordon Sauter was president of CBS News in the early 1980s and until recently was chairman of the California Boxing Commission.
What’s the big problem at CBS News?
Well, for one thing, it has no credibility. And no audience, no morale, no long-term emblematic anchorperson and no cohesive management structure. Outside of those annoyances, it shouldn’t be that hard to fix.
Personally, I have a great affection for CBS News, even though I was unceremoniously shown to the door there nearly 20 years ago in a tumultuous change of corporate management.
But I stopped watching it some time ago. The unremitting liberal orientation finally became too much for me. I still check in, but less and less frequently. I increasingly drift to NBC News and Fox and MSNBC. […]
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