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CBS News vs Wound Warriors Project

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Jan 28, 2016.

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  1. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    It's a charity. Charities try to raise money. Are you saying they shouldn't solicit donors to contribute more money?
     
    SnarkShark, Jan 29, 2016
    #13
  2. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Some charities thank you for the gift. Others try to bludgeon you until you forget why you even sent the check in the first place. There's a big difference.

    FWIW the worst of these I've ever encountered was the Natural Resources Defense Council. I bought the sob story about the salt mines off the Pacific coast of Mexico because I didn't want to see the whales die. I got shit from them for the next 10 years.

    Ah, youth.
     
    LongTimeListener, Jan 29, 2016
    #14
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  3. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    If anyone is looking for an interesting side plot, CBS is also televising the Super Bowl. The NFL has also raised money for Wounded Warriors Project. Can't imagine the league is too happy with their broadcast partner.
     
    Baron Scicluna, Jan 29, 2016
    #15
  4. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Baron, you're probably correct, but, you know, fuck what the NFL is happy about.
     
    swingline, Jan 29, 2016
    #16
  5. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Maybe CBS should focus on its attention on why our wounded veterans need charity and the government isn't giving them everything they need?

    Trump doesn't like wound warriors, he likes the ones who don't get themselves blown up.
     
    heyabbott, Jan 29, 2016
    #17
  6. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    I'm with the others, I thought WWP's lousy fiscal habits was common knowledge.
     
    Inky_Wretch, Jan 30, 2016
    #18
  7. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Interesting that a CBS exec sits on their board and chairs the Audit Committee.
     
    Armchair_QB, Jan 30, 2016
    #19
  8. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Bet that somehow does not make the coverage.
     
    Neutral Corner, Jan 30, 2016
    #20
  9. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    They aren't hiding from that. If that was what was guiding their news judgment, they would never have investigated in the first place.

    Also, he's not just a "CBS executive." He is their "chief veteran officer." They created a whole position to ensure that CBS is doing all that it can to promote the well-being of veterans (language taken from his bio on their website).

    And he isn't some random CBS executive who happens to sit on the board of the Wounded Warrior Project. He is a guy whose whole job relates to working with veterans organizations. From his bio: "He was appointed by Congress and serves on the Advisory Committee on Veterans’ Employment, Training and Employer Outreach (ACVETEO) at the U.S. Labor Department and U.S. Veterans Administration. In addition, he sits on the boards of the Wounded Warrior Project, The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University, USJAG (The Uniformed Services Justice and Advocacy Group), the Easter Seals Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Community Services, the Aaron Grider Foundation and is an advisor to Veteran’s Advantage and ACT Today! (Autism Care & Treatment) for Military Families."
     
    The Big Ragu, Jan 30, 2016
    #21
  10. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    I guess I'm showing my age if my response to that is "follow the money". It sounds like he is sincerely concerned to be involved in that many groups of that nature... but if so, I would hope that he has some response to questions about the WWP.
     
    Neutral Corner, Jan 30, 2016
    #22
  11. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    "You only write about us when we .misappropriate funds. "
     
    HanSenSE, Jan 30, 2016
    #23
  12. KJIM

    KJIM Well-Known Member

    I read the NT Times article. When heads of nonprofits are firing people because they question free-spending and then being forced to sign nondisclosure agreements, that's a signal something's bad. The head of the nonprofit essentially running off its well-meaning founder is another.

    A lavish "all hands" company meeting with 500 people in a resort town 1800 miles away from it home base isn't fiscally responsible.

    Fund-raising nonprofits aren't Starbucks.
     
    KJIM, Jan 30, 2016
    #24
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