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| − | '''CBS Broadcasting, Inc.''' ('''CBS''') is a [[media]] conglomorate that owns and operates large [[radio]] and [[television]] networks along with a number of other businesses including [[billboard]]s and outdoor advertising, an internet presence, and book publishing (Simon and Schuster). The initials stand for "Columbia Broadcasting System", although that name is no longer used.
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| − | CBS's decades-old good reputation and ratings have dwindled since its once powerful and respected [[news]] organization aired the ''Evening News'' with respected [[anchor]] [[Walter Cronkite]]. The network's notorious fiasco concerning its news employees' forging of [[George W. Bush]]'s [[National Guard]] service records during the [[United States presidential election, 2004|2004 presidential election campaign]], which led to the retirement of Cronkite's replacement as anchor [[Dan Rather]], tarnished CBS's image. Also, the broadcaster often airs morally offensive movies, obscene [[rap]] [[music video]]s, and even [[commercial]]s that push the cultural and moral "envelope." In [[politics]], CBS's [[liberal]] tendencies are evidenced by its news reporters' and show hosts' barely concealed [[bias]]es in favor of President [[Barack Obama]] and his policies and against [[conservative]]s and [[Republican]]s. CBS has continued to air the highly offensive ''Late Show with [[David Letterman]]'', even after Letterman contrived a joke that made fun of the fictional [[statutory rape]] of [[United States presidential election, 2008|2008 vice-presidential candidate]] [[Sarah Palin]]'s 14-year-old daughter.
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| − | CBS's billboard company is the largest in the USA, with $2 billion in annual revenues, and it exercises [[censorship]] of messages that contradict its political bias. Recently, [[WorldNetDaily]] founder [[Joseph Farah]] was not allowed place the message "Where's The Birth Certificate?" on CBS-owned signage.<ref>[http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100022 Cover-up: CBS bans eligibility billboards] WND.com, June 03, 2009</ref> In response, Farah said CBS is undeserving of [[First Amendment]] protections.
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