CES Fires CNET Over CBS Hopper Flap Restores Hopper Best of Show Award CBS's Hopper screw up continues to bring bad news to the company, with no sign of enlightenment coming from company executives. CBS recently forced CNET to pull a CES best-of-show award for Dish's ad-skipping Hopper DVR because CBS doesn't like the technology. After being criticized Internet wide for polluting CNET's editorial standards CBS tried to pretend they were imposing some new, faux-ethical standard, saying they'd no longer allow CNET to review any product from a company CBS was engaged in lawsuits with. Now things have gotten worse for CBS and CNET, with CES themselves announcing that they've fired CNET over the scuff up. CES President Gary Shapiro was refreshingly blunt quote: "We are shocked that the ‘Tiffany’ network which is known for its high journalistic standards would bar all its reporters from favorably describing classes of technology the network does not like." He was even more blunt in an quote: "CBS ... will never be viewed again as pristine," wrote Shapiro. "The ethical media rule is that corporate business interests should never interfere in journalism—or at least not so blatantly, publicly, and harmfully. It made me wonder if 60 Minutes had ever suffered the same treatment." CES even went so far as to re-instate the best of show award that CBS managed to take away through editorial meddling. Meanwhile showing CBS has learned nothing, they issued a rote statement that answers absolutely none of the questions being directed at the company: quote: “As the No. 1 tech news and reviews site in the world, CNET is committed to delivering in-depth coverage of consumer electronics. We look forward to covering CES and the latest developments from the show as we have for well over a decade." The enjoyment Dish and Charlie Ergen are getting from all of this is probably immeasurable. Now things have gotten worse for CBS and CNET, with CES themselves announcing that they've fired CNET over the scuff up. CES President Gary Shapiro was refreshingly blunt in a statement He was even more blunt in an editorial in USAToday CES even went so far as to re-instate the best of show award that CBS managed to take away through editorial meddling. Meanwhile showing CBS has learned nothing, they issued a rote statement that answers absolutely none of the questions being directed at the company:The enjoyment Dish and Charlie Ergen are getting from all of this is probably immeasurable.







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jseymour

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Waterford, MI 2 recommendations jseymour Member From The "You're Just Figuring This Out?" Dept.



I have an ex-girlfriend that was a Journalism major and was once a journalist. She got out of it years and years ago, when she saw where it was headed. She is so embarrassed by what has become of the field she once loved that she tends to avoid mentioning it to people.



Journalists such as Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite must be spinning in their graves



Jim That CBS would influence its journalists comes as no surprise to anybody that's been watching what's happened to American journalism over the last few decades. This is just the latest, and most blatant, in a long line, a nearly continuous line, of compromises in journalistic integrity. In fact: The word "journalism" has become so tainted in American media so as to be a running joke.I have an ex-girlfriend that was a Journalism major and was once a journalist. She got out of it years and years ago, when she saw where it was headed. She is so embarrassed by what has become of the field she once loved that she tends to avoid mentioning it to people.Journalists such as Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite must be spinning in their gravesJim elray

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Santa Monica, CA 2 recommendations elray Member "known for its high journalistic standards" You can't make this stuff up.



Oh wait, they do.