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posted by n1 on Tuesday June 20 2017, @02:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the make-media-great-again dept.

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A couple of Time Warner shareholders went after CNN CEO Jeff Bewkes Thursday in LA at a Time Warner shareholders meeting [...] David Almasi, the Veep of the National Center for Public Policy Research1, a conservative communications and research foundation, is in LA to question Bewkes. Both Almasi and President David Ridenour are Time Warner shareholders.

[...] “Mr. Bewkes, we have urged you many times to make CNN more objective,” Almasi said in his statement. “You have admitted to us in 2014 the need for more balance. We praised you last year after CNN President Jeffrey Zucker also acknowledged this and acted on the need for more diverse views. But bias is apparently worse than ever. As shareholders, we are concerned about the repetitional risk to our investment in Time Warner as CNN appears to be a key player in the war against the Trump presidency.”

Almasi cited a Media Research Center2 study of CNN programing for 14 hours and 27 minutes of news coverage back on May 12. The report concluded that all but 68 minutes were devoted to Trump with 96 guests out of 123 being negative.

[...] “I’m inquiring about CNN’s bias and our return on investment,” Almasi continued in his statement. “Half of the American public – which includes potential and current CNN viewers – voted for Trump last November and supports his agenda. CNN acts as if it is part of the anti-Trump resistance. Are you willing to lose viewers, possibly forever, because of the bias?”

Almasi even threatened Bewkes, saying that Media Research Center plans to alert advertisers about news programs that “peddle smear, hate and political extremism.”

He asked Bewkes, “Are you concerned about advertisers leaving CNN? Will you continue to ignore our appeals for objectivity at the risk to our investment in Time Warner?”

Source: The Daily Caller

1The National Center for Public Policy Research, founded in 1982, is a self-described conservative think tank in the United States. In February 2014, at Apple Inc.'s annual shareholder meeting, NCPPR proposed Apple "disclose the costs of its sustainability programs" was rejected by 97% vote. The NCPPR representative argued that Apple's decision to have all of its power come from greens sources would lower shareholders' profits.

2The Media Research Center (MRC) is a politically conservative content analysis organization based in Reston, Virginia, founded in 1987 by activist L. Brent Bozell III. Its stated mission is to "prove—through sound scientific research—that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values."


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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday June 20 2017, @03:56PM (2 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday June 20 2017, @03:56PM (#528527) Journal

    I don't care if 50% of the weather channel viewers are at least tangentially interested in Cubs baseball scores, that kind of thing doesn't belong on a weather channel.

    Both channels have the same owners? I think you know what cross promotion and product placement are. The TV doesn't propagandize, it advertises. Put the silly idealism aside for one second. This is business... And they are showing what the viewers (ok, sponsors actually) want. The only thing that has changed from the past is that now they have to compete with weirdos crowdfunding other weirdos because they do want to watch propaganda all day.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 20 2017, @04:05PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 20 2017, @04:05PM (#528538)

    In a commodity market

    And they are

    has a level of reliability thats pretty high.

    On the other hand in a near monopoly, you only need a microscopic handful of dumb people to completely derail the dead hand of the free market from achieving perfection.

    "The Market" for something like fidgit spinners is pretty near a perfect match of what fidgit people want. "The Market" of three TV news networks, not so much.

    • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday June 20 2017, @04:46PM

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday June 20 2017, @04:46PM (#528578) Journal

      This doesn't require that much thought. Simply put, if you follow the money, all your questions will be answered. The propaganda, political, religious, whatever, is a simple effective motivational tool. The direction, 'left-right', makes no difference.

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