To: CBS Board of Directors
Tell CBS: Stop profiting from violence, hate, and white supremacy
Despite tremendous racism and violence coming from Donald Trump's campaign, your company's CEO, Les Moonves, is gloating about profiting off of what "may not be good for America." And that he seems to enjoy profiting off of what is hurting our country — at one point even saying "this if fun," — is unacceptable. Moonves is condoning and encouraging bigotry and hate from Trump’s campaign and must be held accountable.
We call on you to fire CEO Moonves and replace him with new leadership who can run a successful business without profiting from hatred, white supremacy, and violence.
We call on you to fire CEO Moonves and replace him with new leadership who can run a successful business without profiting from hatred, white supremacy, and violence.
Why is this important?
"Go Donald! Bring it on, Donald, go ahead, keep going." — Les Moonves, Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation
This isn't the cheerleading of a Donald Trump campaign operative. These are the words of one of the highest paid CEOs in the world, Les Moonves of the CBS Corporation. It's no secret that big media corporations have been making big money off the spectacle of this presidential election, but Les Moonves has gone far beyond that.
In comments at a Morgan Stanley conference Les Moonves acknowledged that his cheerleading for Trump’s campaign "may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS." Moonves, who is one of the highest paid CEOs in the world, didn't even say this with any sense of remorse, at one point saying , "the money's rolling in, this is fun."
This just days after Donald Trump failed to immediately distance himself from David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. It's the latest in a long line of Trump actions and statements that encourage violence against our communities, and have directly resulted in attacks and harassment against Latinos, immigrants, and people of color in at least 30 documented instances.
CBS Corporation makes a lot of money off of publicly licensed television and radio waves. It should be not run by a CEO that delights in profiting off of what he himself acknowledges is bad for America. Sign and share this petition to tell the CBS board of directors that it's time for him to go.
This isn't the cheerleading of a Donald Trump campaign operative. These are the words of one of the highest paid CEOs in the world, Les Moonves of the CBS Corporation. It's no secret that big media corporations have been making big money off the spectacle of this presidential election, but Les Moonves has gone far beyond that.
In comments at a Morgan Stanley conference Les Moonves acknowledged that his cheerleading for Trump’s campaign "may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS." Moonves, who is one of the highest paid CEOs in the world, didn't even say this with any sense of remorse, at one point saying , "the money's rolling in, this is fun."
This just days after Donald Trump failed to immediately distance himself from David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. It's the latest in a long line of Trump actions and statements that encourage violence against our communities, and have directly resulted in attacks and harassment against Latinos, immigrants, and people of color in at least 30 documented instances.
CBS Corporation makes a lot of money off of publicly licensed television and radio waves. It should be not run by a CEO that delights in profiting off of what he himself acknowledges is bad for America. Sign and share this petition to tell the CBS board of directors that it's time for him to go.