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Trump has sued CBS, alleging it edited an interview with 2024 with Harris last fall to benefit her. CBS News has denied that. CBS's parent company, Paramount Global, is in talks to potentially settle Trump's lawsuit. At the same time, Paramount Global is seeking administration approval of a merger with Skydance Media.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainmen...538643?cmp=rss
This paragraph really captures the whole thing. Trump makes a big deal about nothing, company "settles" so they can get their merger approved. Trump walks away with bribe, company makes boatloads more money. The American Way just keeps getting greasier.
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In addition to the tussle with Trump, Paramount's controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, has expressed unhappiness over some network coverage of Israel's war in Gaza, including a 60 Minutes piece this winter. Paramount began supervising 60 Minutes stories in new ways, including asking former CBS News president Susan Zirinsky to look over some of its stories before they aired.
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Ah, the world where a shareholder can censor journalists. Democracy is indeed dead down there. Money is power. That voters so blindly handed it to them should be a stern warning to the rest of the free world not to give these mother####ing right wing weasels a goddamn inch.