On Monday, Paramount confirmed that it is acquiring The Free Press and naming the online media site's co-founder Bari Weiss editor-in-chief at CBS News. The announcement has added to concerns about what critics describe as a right-wing takeover of one of the nation's most storied broadcasters. But the latest news is also part of a decades-old debate over the political meaning of CBS, as A.J. Bauer writes in Made by History. Conservative accusations of liberal bias at the network stretch back to the 1950s, when Sen. Joseph McCarthy's advocates deemed it the "Communist Broadcasting System"; by the 1960s, some conservatives even launched an effort to buy an ownership stake in the network, a plan that fizzled. Today, the media landscape has changed—viewers have far more than the "Big Three" networks to choose from to get their news—and, it became clear this week, that's not all that's different now.
"In conversation with a TIME correspondent last week, Reagan attempted to trace the events that caused the abrupt shift in his political creed: 'You have to start with the small-town beginnings. You're a part of everything that goes on. In high school, I was on the football team and I was in class plays and I was president of the student body, and the same thing happened in college. In a small town, you can't stand on the sidelines and let somebody else do what needs doing; you can't coast along on someone else's opinions. That, really, is how I became an activist. I felt I had to take a stand on all the controversial issues of the day; there was a sense of urgency about getting involved.'"
This week in 1996: Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn
The Oct. 7, 1996, cover of TIME
Greg Gorman
"Women scorned, women afraid of being scorned–and some curious men along for the ride–are helping The First Wives Club break records. Its $18.9 million opening weekend was the highest ever for a so-called women's film…The First Wives Club is dipping into a bottomless well of shared female rage. It is rage at the imbalance of power that allows men to use up the best years of a woman's life, then trade her in for an ingenue–and rage at every single element that goes into that scenario: the obsession with youth and looks, the persistent inequality in income, the devaluing of a woman's contribution to the family and to a man's success."
"Francis is reorienting the Vatican to the geographic and geostrategic margins, elevating bishops from Cape Verde, Thailand, Haiti and Tonga and including in his early sojourns trips to Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. American Catholicism, meanwhile, is tipping from a dominion of European immigrants and their descendants–Irish, Italian, Polish, French–to one with a pronounced Latin American plurality. But even as it gains new immigrants it is losing adherents: there are roughly 3 million fewer Catholic adults in the U.S. now than there were around the time of Benedict XVI's visit in 2008."
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