So CBS News Radio, after nearly a century of broadcasting, is being shut down by Gen X idiot Bari Weiss, who cannot possibly understand the influence and impact of the House of Murrow on American journalism, politics, history, and culture.
"We understand how difficult this news is for our staff and their colleagues, who have worked side by side with us to cover some of the most significant stories of our time," Weiss said.
No, you don't, Bari. You absolutely don't. We cats call bullshit on that.
Weiss was born a full 40-plus years after Edward R. Murrow set the standard for on-the-scene reporting with his broadcasts from the 1940 London Blitz. The so-called Murrow Boys reported not only World War II and its aftermath, but also the McCarthy era and every story of national importance through the end of the Sixties. (When we were kittens, our dad, in fact, listened to WBBM every morning in Chicago before he went to work.) Walter Cronkite was not a Murrow Boy, but he inherited the distinguished mantle. His time, sadly, is long gone.
This raping of CBS makes us sick. Let's hope that in some future timeline, clueless fuckups like Weiss can be ejected, and its former glory restored. In the meantime, we cats HISS.
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