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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."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 20 2017, @06:46PM (5 children)
Isn't it fun how conservatives have turned the "tolerance and respect" that liberals value against us? SO FUN!
Just another tool in their mud slinging projection kit.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday June 20 2017, @08:41PM (4 children)
Uh, no. You got confused.
That's the "Both sides are bad" bullshit, not the "tolerate the implementation of terrible, evil policy in the same way you say we should tolerate the mere existence of people who are different" bullshit.
I know it's hard to keep straight all the things you know they don't actually believe but say anyways because they're intellectually dishonest assholes. There's so many.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 21 2017, @02:06AM
I wasn't confused, and I wasn't thinking jdavidb was making that conservative play. It was more a tangential comment more than anything, but I can see how it messed with the thread of conversation.
Conservatives are really trying hard to validate their current worldview, my only hope is that a few years of this horrifying outburst of pent up rage will cause the more moderate conservatives to reevaluate their positions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 21 2017, @03:31AM (1 child)
To suggest that that is bullshit is pure lunacy. It's obvious that both parties are evil, though I think they are evil to different extents. Just saying "Both X and Y are bad." is not the same as saying "X and Y are equally bad." Unless someone says the latter, false equivalency does not apply. At most, you should ask for further clarification.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday June 21 2017, @09:24PM
Nope, sorry. It's bullshit. If you believe it, you're a bullshit believer.
Centrists have their admirable qualities: peacemaking, intolerance of the shit-slinging nature of modern politics, and statistically speaking, marginally more intelligence than partisans.
Dishonest bullshit detection doesn't seem to be among those qualities, though. Both sides are filled with flawed human beings and ideologies that override sense. One "side", however, has been so consistently leading the charge on making things worse, both in terms of how politics operate, and disregard for ethics in pursuit of ideology, that to say the phrase "Both sides are bad" is almost innately dishonest.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 21 2017, @02:15PM
Hmm. I say both sides serve the same master, and as such are not really "sides" at all, at least, not against each other. I base my assertion on policy outcomes. Real incomes for Americans have been on an uninterrupted 40 year slide. The average CEO makes thousands of times more than the media worker now, as opposed to 7 times more 40 years ago. We went from the Church Commission to total police state surveillance in the same period. All these things have proceeded through multiple changes of administration and congressional majorities from Republican to Democrat and back again. If those two parties were in fact "sides," and different, then the trajectory of those real outcomes would have shifted.
Or perhaps you live in a parallel universe where everything is in fact awesome and you're communicating with us, unwittingly, via a short circuit in the dimensional membrane of existence.
Washington DC delenda est.