Friday, January 25, 2013

CBS reportedly refuses to budge on no-reviews policy, sending morale at CNET 'plummeting'

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Before an all-hands meeting with CBS corporate on Wednesday, CNET staffers reportedly believed that their parent company might reverse its policy banning reviews of the Hopper DVR and Aereo. Instead, as Jim Romenesko reports, CBS was adamant. Not only could CNET's reviews team not cover the Hopper DVR, reporters apparently could not write positively of the product at all.


This account appeared in media journalist Jim Romenesko's blog, supported by interviews of multiple CNET staffers. It suggests that CNET and its parent company are still at odds over what constitutes editorial interference. Problems that seem minor to CBS are major for CNET. It offers no resolution of the problematic distinction between news and reviews that CBS is...


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