This performative settlement but really bribery shit is really gross. Interestingly enough they may not just be in violation of Fed and State law. Many countries anti-bribery laws are extra territorial.
What does it even matter? Oversight and accountability mean jack shit in the age of Trump. Bully-boy tactics and threats of retaliation ... also known as extortion back when the mob did it ... are all they really need. Who knew?? The digital blitzkrieg proceeds apace.
These bogus lawsuits are nothing more than shakedowns. By being so weak and toothless, these media companies are only encouraging Trump to come back for more.
If they find themselves the victim of a state-run protection racket, they'll only have themselves to blame.
The lawsuits are just a "king's progress" through the media industry and "royal entry" demanding, receiving and laundering gifts of fealty from the invaded corporate fiefdoms.
CBS folded on this issue!! They were bluffed right into handing the transcripts over. It seems like no one has a backbone when it comes to the Blond Guy
If only...it only takes one major to back DonnieFelon down. Bullies depend upon obsequiousness, to say "no" is an act of not just defiance, but of patriotism.
Imagine being sued for not inviting someone to your birthday party, only you invited them, called them again, told others that you invited them, and even saved a piece of cake in case they showed up the next day. Then they want to sue you for having the party at all without them.
I’d be pissed about the paramount CEO and would want to find out where they lived and what routes they took to get to work each day.
I’d like to harass them and rain hell down on them. I’d want to make to personal.. very personal. Ass kissing corporations in the US, need to have their balls cut off.
Way too easy to envision Paramount executives watching NETWORK and convincing themselves that Frank Hackett and Arthur Jensen are the film's real heroes
HELL TO THE NO. That’s how they’re getting away with all of this. Everyone is bowing down to them!! Look at the tariffs, look at the other lawsuits, look at Musk… NO ONE is fighting back… I’m sick of this
Yup my apologies, I learned that later today. Both Canada and Mexico agreed to things they were already doing. He’ll still spin it in his favor and his followers will swallow it.
Yeah, he'll try, but I'm not sure ethnic cleansing or having Elmo and his script kiddies rooting around in their confidential information is what they voted for, though. But you never know with these cult addled MAGA weasels. They might think forced mass migration and a ME riviera are brilliant.😑
This is pathetic. Redstone is a disgrace. This would’ve been comically unthinkable 10 years ago. Not to mention how Don Hewitt would’ve handled Trump and his lawsuit
Paramount will pay trump just like ABC has. It's basically a bribe to get the merger. It's always about money. We are losing responsible, reliable news agencies in order to appease the monster.
They sold this country out and helped put that shithead into office not TWICE. They have blood on their hands. I used to sit on my father's lap when I was a kid while he read the NY Times. I will never give those fucks another dime, and I suggest everyone do the same.
Screw the settlement. Trump should take them to trial and force discovery. That would put the raw footage into the public record, as well as who did the editing, who requested it and why, etc., etc.
Note: C suite execs are beholden to the neoliberal ideology of earning rates of return in excess of their cost of capital. Moreover, the wealth effect of rising asset values is central to Federal Reserve's strategy. Then there's the personal interests of the execs (stocks, options). Need I say more?
When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, my family would watch 60 Minutes religiously. They always spoke truth to power. Politicians were petrified of being investigated by Safer, Reasoner or Rather.
The low-grade pablum they churn out is now is an embarrassment to journalism 
Vice President Harris should sue Fix News for editing all the lies by RUMP to help him win!!😡
ABC paid money. CBS will be next.. ..
NBC will be silent.
It took Hitler 53 days to dismantle the government..So far in 14 days, RUMP & MUSK are on track to beat that record while Congress watches!😡
I will cancell my Paramount + account if they knucle under to that fat fuck. What happened to journalistic integrety . that is the only thing that keeps me reading and watching the news. I can get Bullshit anywhere, I have siblings.
They should demand an apology from Trump. "We offered you a spot. We offered you equal time. You refused us. Now you criticize us on how we used the time spent and our constiutional First Amendment Right to do so. With the kindest of words, kindly fuck right off."
I find it hard to believe there was deceptive editing...I mean, Kamala looked like an absolute idiot. If they had been trying to help they would have left it all on the cutting room floor.
Do not comply. Ever. It only emboldens them. Make them arrest us. Make them attack us. It worked for the Civil Rights heroes. As John Lewis said, let's get into some good trouble.
The single biggest issue facing America today is the almost complete takeover of media ( especially cable ) by the reich wing.
Seems like @karaswisher.bsky.social is one of the few commenting on it - and the need for the center/left to get their shit together and get control of their own media.
It is not now, and never has been, a law that says you can't make statements of fact that are unfavorable to another person. Also, freedom of speech means you can say what you want, but doesn't compel someone else to give you any specific platform to speak. Trump is just wrong and should be ignored.
60 minutes should settle by agreeing to do a completely unedited long-form interview with trump. Let the American people see clearly that he's an incoherent babbling boob.
Remember, you are employees, who work "At Will."
Simply it means your job, if it isn't protected by a contract, can disappear at the will of your employer.
Rules NEVER favor employees vs management.
Anyone that Trump sure is weak for caving in all they have to do is say the lawsuit needs to wait till he is out of office as it will cause havoc during his presidency just like he got out of his. Use his same excuse because if they allow it then all the suits he got pushed back can start happening.
Oh it totally is but they’d rather be extorted by the mob boss. They have a merger deal coming up.
Bribery in plain sight.
I’m really gonna miss watching the Daily show .
If it was just edited simply for time, etc. that would be valid. But in this case wholesale changes were made to the extent that it became an issue of making an undisclosed campaign contribution.
The Harris interview edit was manipulative, misleading and biased. The First Amendment protects CBS’s right to destroy their own reputation by providing manipulative, misleading and biased content, it’s called Freedom of the Press.
Paramount should ABSOLUTELY NOT settle in this case. It’s wrong.
Would love to see them all resign en masse and start a new investigative news show that focuses on our slide into authoritarianism.
They could call it “the final hour”
" ..⏰️..I'm Benny Johnson..⏰️..I'm Crenk Uygher..⏰️..I'm Ben Shapiro..⏰️..and I'm Alex Jones. We'll have all those stories plus your daily horoscope tonight on 60 Minutes."
...we have no real legacy news organizations in our nation anymore--they have all converted to reality tv sycophants competing to see who can be best at acting like real journalists....Murrow, Walters, and the other icons are spinning in their graves right now....
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If they find themselves the victim of a state-run protection racket, they'll only have themselves to blame.
All of them are now nothing but collaborators.
Imagine being sued for not inviting someone to your birthday party, only you invited them, called them again, told others that you invited them, and even saved a piece of cake in case they showed up the next day. Then they want to sue you for having the party at all without them.
I’d like to harass them and rain hell down on them. I’d want to make to personal.. very personal. Ass kissing corporations in the US, need to have their balls cut off.
Integrity? Journalism excellence? Gone with the Wind.
don't be cowards!!
Musk is the new Jeffery Epstein.
They must be charged & put behind bars with no internet access.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/skydance-paramount-dismiss-objections-planned-84-bln-merger-2025-01-03/
They sold this country out and helped put that shithead into office not TWICE. They have blood on their hands. I used to sit on my father's lap when I was a kid while he read the NY Times. I will never give those fucks another dime, and I suggest everyone do the same.
Thank you for standing and not falling!
The low-grade pablum they churn out is now is an embarrassment to journalism 
ABC paid money. CBS will be next.. ..
NBC will be silent.
It took Hitler 53 days to dismantle the government..So far in 14 days, RUMP & MUSK are on track to beat that record while Congress watches!😡
- Still not sick of winning.
Seems like @karaswisher.bsky.social is one of the few commenting on it - and the need for the center/left to get their shit together and get control of their own media.
Simply it means your job, if it isn't protected by a contract, can disappear at the will of your employer.
Rules NEVER favor employees vs management.
Bribery in plain sight.
I’m really gonna miss watching the Daily show .
Paramount should ABSOLUTELY NOT settle in this case. It’s wrong.
They could call it “the final hour”