Media Outlet / Personality: CBS

Viacom and CBS merged in 2000, but in 2005 the companies split to form two separately traded entities. CBS Corporation was created and manages CBS Television Network, UPN, CBS Stations Group, CBS Paramount Television, King World, Showtime, CBS Radio, CBS Outdoor, Simon & Schuster, CBS Digital Media, CSTV and CBS Consumer Products.


Extra!: Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates: The corporate ties between insurers and media companies (August 2009) By Kate Murphy

Media Advisory: International Law Seldom Newsworthy in Gaza War: Israeli justifications often cited uncritically (1/13/09)

Elections/2008 Media Advisory: More Than a Two-Person Race: Corporate media largely ignore other presidential candidates (10/21/08)

Economy Elections/2008 Action Alert: CBS Cheats on Tax Coverage: Manipulation of data leaves viewers disinformed (9/22/08)

Extra!: Saddam's 'Secret': Hussein told CBS about WMDs--but CBS wasn't watching (March/April 2008) By Seth Ackerman

Action Alert: The 'Great Mystery' of Iraq's WMDs?: CBS ignores evidence from its own show (2/1/08)

Economy CounterSpin: Neil deMause on FAIR's poverty study, Alex Koppelman on Lou Dobbs and U.S. Border Patrol criminals (9/7/07)

Extra!: The Poor Will Always Be With Us--Just Not on the TV News: FAIR Study (September/ October 2007) By Neil deMause and Steve Rendall

CounterSpin: Laila al-Arian on 'The Other War,' Ann Toback on broadcast news survey (8/3/07)

Elections/2008 Activism Update: Jeff Greenfield Responds to FAIR: CBS reporter misses the point on healthcare (6/26/07)

Elections/2008 Action Alert: CBS's 'Sicko' Spin: Americans Don't Want Single-Payer Health—Except They Do (6/25/07)

Action Alert: Illegal, Yes--But Not Newsworthy: Wiretapping testimony hardly covered (5/22/07)

Action Alert: CBS's Nuclear Revival: 60 Minutes' critic-free boosterism (4/18/07)

Media Advisory: Won't Get Fooled Again?: NYT, networks offer scant skepticism on Iran claims (2/2/07)

Action Alert: Staying Inside the Beltway: Networks' Sunday shows ignore public opposition to war (1/29/07)

Media Advisory: Midterms and the Media: Was the press fair to voters? (11/6/06)

Action Alert: CBS, NBC Clean Up Bush's 'Happy' Talk (8/24/06)

Activism Update: CBS Responds on Schieffer Commentary: 'We'll just have to agree to disagree' (7/24/06)

Action Alert: 'Because This Is the Middle East': CBS' Schieffer ignores context in Mideast crisis (7/19/06)

Action Alert: CBS's Mideast 'Cycle of Violence': Analysis omits Palestinian deaths (6/30/06)

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