Former CBS exec Leslie Moonves spilled the beans about news media priorities 9 years ago: Democracy, meh! "throwing crap", YEE-HAW!!!!!

 

More eyeballs, more advertisers, more revenue.  What could be better??!!!

As quoted in CBS Chairman Les Moonves Loves GOP Attack Ad Spending: ‘Go Donald!’.  (The Wrap, 12/17/2015)

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