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CBS, the home of the most celebrated news division in broadcasting, has been in discussions with Time Warner about a deal to outsource some of its news-gathering operations to CNN, two executives briefed on the matter said Monday.
Over the last decade, CNN has held intermittent talks with both ABC News and CBS News about various joint ventures. But during the last several months, talks with CBS have been revived and lately intensified, according to the executives who were given anonymity because of the confidential nature of the negotiations.
Broadly speaking, the executives described conversations about reducing CBS's news-gathering capacity while keeping its frontline personalities, like Katie Couric, the CBS Evening News anchor, and paying a fee to CNN to buy the cable network's news feeds.
Another possibility, these people said, would be for CBS to keep its correspondents in certain regions but pair them with CNN crews.
But, these people cautioned, no deal was imminent. Through a spokesman, CBS declined to comment. A CNN spokeswoman said, "we don't comment on speculative business matters."
Originally posted by JBA2848
Government would be in easy access to propaganda and media control by doing this.
Originally posted by JBA2848
I think the internet is a important source though some may argue that its not. Blogs such as this site definetly makes it to the list of a good news source with its breaking news threads. But many of the older crowds who do most of the voting in this coountry til recently still get there news from a face they like such as Kattie. I think we still have a few more years til people are educated more from the internet then from one sided news stories on tv. The younger generations on the net will be a educated and wiser voter in the future then the baby boomers.