CBS News — The Ghost of Broadcast Past.
CBS once stood tall in American living rooms. Walter Cronkite. 60 Minutes. Hard questions and real reporting. But that was then. Now? It’s a shell—polished, rehearsed, and tiptoeing around anything that might rattle its corporate cage. It still talks like grandpa’s trustworthy news source, but the backbone ain’t there.
Owned by Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS), CBS answers to entertainment execs, not everyday Americans. From COVID panic to Jan 6 narrative-shaping, they echoed official lines without pushback. “60 Minutes” used to rattle cages—now it tiptoes around sacred cows. They won’t dig where the dirt actually lies.
If CBS dropped the polish and let the truth rip? You’d see how deep the entertainment industry and global advertisers shape the stories they tell. You’d hear more about working-class struggle, media hypocrisy, and maybe even how legacy news is dying not from lack of funds, but lack of guts.
Verdict: Not SphstRDnck.
Used to be the voice of the people. Now it’s the whisper of the boardroom. Too quiet when it mattered. Too polished to trust.