CBS staff alarmed by reports of settlement talks with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ Harris interview
CBS staff alarmed by reports of settlement talks with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ Harris interview
Summary
CBS staff are outraged by reports that Paramount Global may settle Donald Trump’s lawsuit over a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris.
The lawsuit, widely dismissed as frivolous, has sparked newsroom backlash. “Trump’s lawsuit was a joke, but if we settle, we become the laughingstock,” a CBS correspondent said.
Critics fear Paramount is appeasing Trump to secure regulatory approval for its Skydance Media merger.
Bernie Sanders and others warn that caving to Trump undermines press independence and encourages further media intimidation.
Critics fear Paramount is appeasing Trump to secure regulatory approval for its Skydance Media merger
it was blackmail, no doubt there:
"do this or no deal."
If they do it I really hope they get denied anyway
Lol
Yeah. Especially since corporate mergers is how the studio behind the Transformers movies get to influence public discourse in the first place.
Corporate consolidation: not even once
ahh, the art of the deal.. take your money and lie to your face today, and screw you over tomorrow.
After this latest Star Trek Fiasco they really didn't need to do anything extra to convince me not to watch anything they produce. But they always go above and beyond.
I like how they think settlement is going to keep them safe.
It is not. One you have paid the Danegeld, you will never be rid of the Dane.
Danegeld
That's why he's threatening Denmark.
Ya know... Frivolous lawsuit as a means to collect bribes / protection money in public and technically legal way is a new one. Not just legal, but actively involves the legal system as an accomplice to the corruption.
Gotta hand it to them, they're clever as fuck when it comes to being greedy, evil bastards.
It's not bribes, it's protection money. Orange wanker employs simple racket, even though he doesn't say it. If you don't comply to his BS claims now, he'd pay his gremlins to make your life miserable via lawsuits, public defamation, whatever, and he just now freed a thousand idiots army with a handful of them that radical that they can charlie-nebdoe your newsroom. We already had a brainlet cooking himself alive in his Tesla praising Trump. This mumbling tan-fucker got a lot of power for a lot of reasons but his own.
Them not agreeing to it just now is a bold, brave move really. And if they stand up to it, that's even cooler. Every small lack of nod to the Cheetatilo is to be praised, and US needs billiones of these rn.
SLAAP lawsuits are nothing new.
Heard a pretty good theory that that's what happened with dominion vs fox.
"Bernie Sanders and others warn that caving to Trump undermines press independence and encourages further media intimidation."
Corpo fucks running CBS:
"Ummm.... I'm sorry can you show me where the part is that I'm supposed to give a fuck about there? Money. I want merger so I make more money. I pay the Don for protection and I make money. I don't see the issue here. Press freedom is for the plebs to care about. I'm rich."
These are all back door bribes for Trump. Meta did the same thing with $25 million
Same as the Disney/Scarborough settlement. That case was a slam dunk for Disney lawyers. But there's no better way to pay a bribe.
They even settled oddly before a settlement would normally happen. There's a good LegalEagle about it.
This too, shall pass. And once it does, remember what suckerberg did, remember what all of them did, never forget
Another part of The Assistance movement, I guess.