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I didn't even know CBS owned CNET?!?

Well now I know I won't go to cnet for reviews because they're bias. I have dish and love it.

I used to love cnet. Lately it is just garbage.

For what it is with, CNET has always been kind of a joke. Their reviews are worthless. I find more vale in Amazon feedback ratings.

Wow, 14 million out of more than 300 million in our country! Solid ratio.

News ended when they pulled Walter Cronkite.

It's censorship at the source. It makes no sense.

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I get why they did it, but it seems far too controlling.

It doesn't stop anyone from skipping commercials though. With many other companies, you can fast forward. And you can always switch channels until the program returns. Bad business in my opinion.

Isn't this an example of corporations controlling media? I understand they own it and it is their right run it as they wish but, why should I now trust it now?

I do exactly what CBS or my Rice Crispies tell me to do.

CBS is a joke.

I tolerate them for that reason, Tops, but honestly I really don't watch them, with rare exceptions. Most of the stuff that's advertised I have no interest in buying. I also don't use an ad blocker on my browsers because I appreciate free web sites, but I almost never click on an ad.

That's a sad statement about America.

If by no one you mean over 14 million of us, you're right.

Now there's a different perspective... I think I like it (even though it's not how I voted). I'd buy it if they had a published policy about it - in general, about the sort of things they don't review - if that could be done; not sure it actually makes sense.

Corporate directive. Not journalistic order. I can guarantee the news team hates it. But it's their paycheck...

Banning them from making reviews is the right move. It would breach journalistic integrity if they gave false bad reviews.

Since when does CBS give a crap about journalistic integrity?

And they wonder why they can't be trusted.....

Its simple people. They are a business trying to make a profit. They make most of their money by airing commercial time in which they enter a legal agreement with another company. The option to skip commercials violates a contract. They are protecting their business from losing investors and $

It's a DUMB decision. Sure, they have the right to do it, since they own the website. But the more widely this is known the less they'll be respected. There is SOME journalistic integrity left, regardless of what some people are saying here, but they reduce it further by making decisions like this.

It's not bad business because of journalistic integrity, it's bad business it drives MORE attention to Dish.

It's already beyond that point.

What is "journalistic integrity?"

"the truth has no agenda" we need a news organization that uses this as they're moto...oh wait :)

@Who...Me?, I don't think @TopsQueen said she cares about commercials, or that she wants to watch 'em. She's jus' statin' the truth, why they exist. I'm with ya, though, on skipping through em'! I like your website idea. Even the commercials they "allow" you to skip, you have to watch part of. ????

Need more info. PKD actually wrote more than one book.

just need to see what my User name is

What is this journalistic integrity you speak of?

CNET at its heart is editorializer/reviewer of, among other related things, digital hardware. Yet, they are banned from reviewing a name brand product? Seems it'd be a little difficult to maintain credibility, or be viewed as objective. CBS has this right. They also have the right to lack courage.

Who cares! I don't want to watch them. I don't have Dish, but I do record the shoe and skip the commercials. If they really want people to watch commercials, just make shows available on the network website 1 day prior to air. You are forced to watch commercials there.

Journalistic integrity went away at least 20 years ago. Yellow journalism is the standard today.

No one has Dish network anyways.

Commercials keeps the cost of watching TV down they're the ones that pay for the programs

Just more proof that CBS has given up on even the illusion of integrity. It's like these knuckleheads have never heard of this thing called the Interwebs. Do something that obviously shady and people will find out.

I am in no way defending NBC here. Just stating it is an example of the mindset they have that it isn't wrong if they just leave out a few of the details... or seconds of the recording.

From what I have seen most TV news simply omits facts that don't support their narrative. In a way you could even say that is what NBC did with the Zimmerman 911 tape: they skipped parts that they did not want their audience to hear. Internet blogs are often flat out wrong. There is no comparison.

Now I can just skip CBS.

Bad business would be airing negative product reviews to deter viewers from purchasing the technology.

Seriously all the bad biz votes? Until everyone learns that networks are businesses not a public service people will continue to be duped by believing there is a shred of impartiality. Everything has a slant. A business owner has rights to not promote or review anything that hurts their business.

Journalistic integrity of product reviews? It says they aren't reviewing then, not releasing false reviews to make them look terrible.

Immaturity

If you're asking me then I'm not sure. Praising Foxnews is a dangerous process and should only be done by professional bull-sh!tters such as the fine men and women at Foxnews. I think part of my soul was burned in the process.

It's the Internet, they can have them say anything they want. They own it...

Doesn't matter to me, I still use cable.

CBS has no credibility to tarnish

How did you say that with a straight face?

And no such thing as making people happy when you deliver news they don't want to hear.

KILL THE MESSENGER.