CES Ditches CNET After CBS Scandal Over Dish's Hopper

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 31, 2013 @01:00PM from the take-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes in about the latest fallout from CNET's parent company, CBS banning Dish Network's hopper from reviews and award lists. "The Consumer Electronics Association has not only today bestowed its Best in Show title upon the same Dish Network product that started this whole mess in the first place — in the same release, the group says it will no longer work with CNET. CES has enjoyed a long and productive partnership with CNET and the Best of CES awards,' said Karen Chupka, the CEA's senior vice president for events and conferences. "However, we are concerned the new review policy will have a negative impact on our brand should we continue the awards relationship as currently constructed. We look forward to receiving new ideas to recognize the 'best of the best' products introduced at the International CES.""

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Re:Screw c|net by Nethemas+the+Great · 2013-01-31 13:16 · Score: 4, Interesting

C|Net? They're so 2002. Do lay-users even consider these folks relevant any more? I figured everyone thought of them as they do other DotCom bubble era companies like Geocities and Tripod.

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Re:CBS has no integrity, why would a subsidiary? by jcr · 2013-01-31 20:56 · Score: 4, Interesting

>you're a right-winger.
Not everyone fits into one of the two boxes in your tiny little mind, sunshine.
Like any other Libertarian, I'm no fan of GWB, and as it happens my distaste for the current teleprompter-in-chief is due to his failure to reverse any of Bush's power grabs.
-jcr

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