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Colly66's avatar

CBS yet another to stop watching, get your news from sub stack sources, such as this or HC Richardson, Paul Krugman, The left Hook etc. The Guardian still independent as well. The ignorant will still watch the crap on these channels, knowing full way they owned by Oligarchs and just can't seem to put two & two together.

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Seldon Crisis Log's avatar

People need to stop watching TV news. It’s a scourge.

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Barbara Lindsay's avatar

Trump is dying, MAGA is dying, and CBS is dead but doesn't know it. Now if only Fox News and other right wing propagandist "news" stations would die. But, alas, too many people have zero critical thinking skills, so they watch that crap and think it's gospel.

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Cheeto Will Preside Over The Currency Failure Of The Dollar

Alasdair Macleod, a British banker,broker, and writer at GoldMoney, has been a proponent of the Austrian school of economics and writes on his Substack channel(https://bit.ly/4oLi5Ar) about the failure and end of fiat currency system In his interview with an Aussie counterpart (https://bit.ly/4rEI8vz) his soundly based predictions is a good listen to warn of the impending currency failure of the dollar

Current inflationary numbers reflect on the loss of the purchasing power of the dollar now given in the price of gold 6% of what it was in 1971 when a Republican took us off the gold standard Put another way, the dollar buys only 6 cents of what the dollar could buy 54y ago When the US was on a gold standard post WWII inflation held steady at 1% and economies flourished

Now central bank/Fed policy is controlled by macroeconomists/Keynesians who see a metallic standard backing a currency as no longer part of the currency system even though a metallic standard is written in the Constitution

What will it look like when there’s a currency collapse? Bond yields will start rising above 5%, banks will foreclose due to margin debt, equity markets will collapse due to margin calls(estimated to be $1T), living standards will suffer horribly…food costs spiral, home loss or mortgages become worthless

Cheeto will preside over this economic catastrophe and much like his response to the COVID crisis, he and his Nazi regime will not know what to do and will devastate not only the US but the Western global economy Cheeto’s anti science approach to dealing with the virus will prove to be as blundering and bungling when it comes to this next crisis

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George in Atlanta's avatar

It's all bad, awful, and no good. I weep for the ghost of Walter Cronkite.

Now that it's out of my system, let us discuss why this matters less than is implied here. CBS is a giant dinosaur that died ages ago but hasn't fallen down yet. I don't get my news from CBS, or any other 'network' (a prehistoric name from back when broadcast media had to be a 'network' and you had three choices). I don't know of anyone who does. This deterioration of the classic 'news media' predates Trump by decades. The yowling about the 'Death Of Print Journalism' was deafening back in the 90's, for God sake. The buy-ups by Bazillionaires is just the fin de siecle for this little drama.

I fired the WaPo back when Bezos started getting stuck up Trump's ass. The NYT has good and bad days now. My skepticism filter is far better developed now than in the past. I verify almost everything. Fox runs a first-rate polling operation, Al Jazeera has has excellent investigative reporting, and they both get the old gimlet eye from me just as I give LP. I should sign up for Ground News, I think. Everything and everybody is moving over to pods and independent news. Flawed and Biased? Absolutely. But it's on *me* to weed out dreck if I really want to get something close to the truth. But then again, it always was, old Walter just gave us a false sense of security, being The Most Trusted Man In America, and all.

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MPT's avatar

Pravda blushes...

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Steve Doll's avatar

I haven't watched CBS (Compromised Bulls**t Station) since "Big Bang Theory" was new. My entire news input is from indie networks who have not sold their souls and integrity to Trumplethinskin.

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Keith Frohreich's avatar

I disagree, an interview with Kirk's widow is not newsworthy. We will not learn anything new. It is being done to add MAGA viewers to the CBS audience.

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John schissel's avatar

Trump tore down the east wing of the white house and the meaning behind the Statue of Liberty with his new american security stategy and now he has taken down CBS news and will replace it with fictiion.

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Nenapoma's avatar

Its sad to see CBS destroy their own credibility but the wheel always is turning. Also I expect

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Angie's avatar

That should be about as popular as a tv show about changing the belt on a lawnmower.

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E Shelton's avatar

Maybe less so. Vid on changing a lawnmower belt is useful and provides safety tips.

My single view of Kirk and his wife was conference for young women; they gave terrible financial advice.

The Erika show should come with a warning for young viewers.

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Thank you for the article Jennifer . We need fact based journalism. I am glad that you wrote a nice article. As for me I don’t feel inclined to watch CBS. There is too much doom and gloom. I feel bad for CBs. PBS is much better. Keep writing and thank you again.

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Sarah Pirnie's avatar

I was just about to say, how many CBS veterans are spinning their graves, when I saw Ms Gamm beat me to it. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

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Carol Gamm's avatar

Edward R Murrow is turning over in his grave.

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Stephen ONeill's avatar

MSM sold itself to the devil in 2015 when it trashed Clinton and ignored Trump's obviously unqualified and dangerous candidacy. There is no going back for them. It's up to the public to minimize their influence, but that won't happen either, because the Republicans have spent years "dumbing" them down by eliminating the teaching of history and civics, and buying up media outlets at all levels.

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

I’m surprised they didn’t invite conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer. She and her fellow Trump worshipping conspiracy theorists have been exclusively invited to cover Pentagon press conferences. Real media sources like the New York Times and Washington Post have now been denied access to the Pentagon.

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