Don't make me cancel Paramount Plus too. I am on a roll with my cancellations these days, and I mean it. Do these people want to lose half the country's business?
If not on principle, on common sense. Anyone who thinks ANYTHING they do buys a favor from Drumpf, they've lost their muthafucking MINDS! With him you do the quid but never, ever, ever get the quo. He's not Clarence Thomas. 🤣🤣🤣
Ikr! When will they learn? He stabs everyone in the back. No loyalties. He even threw his children under the bus when he testified in one of his many trials.
How about let's have the FCC investigate Fox for contributing to wrongful deaths during COVID based on negligence and intentional disinformation? The victims families should sue for 720,000 excess deaths x $25M = $21 trillion
I’m not surprised. When I signed up to watch the SNL documentary, I found ads peppered throughout my experience—even after paying for the privilege. Fuck them. I canceled my subscription right after watching it
You gotta admit DJT filing all the lawsuits just before the election was brilliant. It gives a back door for money exchange that can be negotiated and sealed up from public. Curruptly EVIL!
Ohhhhhh..... Lax antitrust enforcement has trained them to expect no pushback, so when they encountered Biden's return to norms, they saw that as an infringement, rather than the end of some kind of "free ice cream" policy. Oooooooohh. Very explanatory -- thank you!
The son of Larry Ellison is part of the merger.
Larry Ellison is a big money-guy for Trump.
I hate that corporations don't have more spine, but this is on the voters. They elected Trump, and that implies that corporations have to play ball.
Giving someone money in exchange for a favor is a bribe. Paramount wants to pay a bribe to the president. Just like Meta and ABC paid bribes to the president.
They will be all held accountable, history is being made & documented every day. I foresee a tribunal, with the space hatzi at the head of the dias, centibillionares, msm, pharma & healthcare execs all charged with separate trials. Lies and misinformation matter to everyone but sociopaths.
I think bribe. Paramount wants its merger to go thru. Meta wants its antitrust lawsuit to go away. They all want something from the government and they know Trump accepts bribes. That’s the sad state of where we’re at as a country.
CBS is in deep competition with ABC for most spineless network on the block. Walter Cronkite is spinning in his grave; Edward R. Morrow just died again.
I thought it was illegal - extortion - also I thought if a company knowingly goes forward with paying a bribe they are also culpable? America you aren't free - you are for sale and it's all pay to play. Don't ever talk about other countries, their corruption, and their dictator til you remove urs
The problem, he never should have been elected. He has nothing but “yes” people in place. We are screwed. We are preaching to the choir, and it ain’t no religion involved.
You would think that with the Ellisons already being pro-Drumpf, Paramount wouldn’t have to resort to this. Then again, last I checked, $10b is literally all they’re worth these days and they too chickenshit to lose anymore money before Skydance bails them out. Quite embarrassing.
giant tv networks don’t give a fuck abt the constitution, individual rights, or the 1st amendment bc they aren’t people. they don’t have values, or a conscience, or compassion. this is why they should not own news/press orgs. the press should be stand alone orgs with a purpose other than $.
Hasn't anyone sued to stop the merger? Isn't this an anti-trust issue, complicated by blackmail? How is this happening, and isn't anyone doing anything about it?
They're lucky they've got Star Trek. That makes it nearly impossible for me to boycott by cancelling my Paramount+ subscription. God help me I just love watching people fly through space discovering mysteries within themselves while exploring the vast cosmos.
Extreme, obscene greed of the ultra rich has been destroying this country. That’s who the majority of us should be angry with. The Robber Barons use the centuries old tactics of having the “littles” angry at others to distract from their taking it all
These traitorous corporations that are so clearly willing to trade away our Constitution and pay outrageous public bribes to this fascist piece of shit, just for their small slice of the oligarchical pie will not receive another cent from me until the day I die.
RePUKlicans have been trying to shut down PBS for decades. Guess they’re ceasing this time to do it. F them! Soon there will be nothing to watch but State TV like in Russia!
NOOOO! Companies need to stop caving to his extortions. Part of enriching himself and ongoing schoolyard bullying. The story of his life. If all people stand up to him, he can’t get away with this. Maybe sue his stinky ass
For CBS to settle a law suit to gain legislative advantage is a 100% corrupt act but the cowardice and bias of the courts means that he will get away with it. I look forward to the next release of the corruption index, the USA will be near the top.
It's a word we should bring back. Even if these billionaires throw heaps of money around on bullshit like hundred million dollar weddings, it's nothing compared to the massive amounts they add to their hoards nonstop.
I love this! Bring back "misers."! Pointedly descriptive, deadly accurate. I'm good with finance, and I've often wanted to write a monograph on how money behaves when it's really being itself. It multiplies secretly. It attracts other money, stuff like that...
Even if someone could become a billionaire without being pathologically greedy, there's no way to sit on top of a hoard that size without that. A bunch of Smaugs.
I'm just a stupid random smartass on the Internet, but maybe these gigantic media companies who are now trying to appease the president could have used their gigantic media empires to make sure he didn't actually get elected.
You would think. Kinda seems like common sense. Let me support the administration that’s actually going to leave me alone, as opposed to the one I have to bribe.
Yeah, but that administration would be boring and actually just do their job. FOTUS is non stop chaos and they hope we all rage/despair watch what idiotic thing he is doing today. I’m not giving them the satisfaction of viewership.
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Are you kidding me?
I love Kathy Bates in the new Matlock but I can add this to my trashed WaPa subscription.
suppose they’ll sell the remaining Articles to Roku…
https://www.businessinsider.com/wbd-david-zaslav-biden-trump-election-regulation-sun-valley-2024-7
Larry Ellison is a big money-guy for Trump.
I hate that corporations don't have more spine, but this is on the voters. They elected Trump, and that implies that corporations have to play ball.
JFC, this isn't even close to a Stephanopoulos.
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When it values a corporate merger OVER its own free speech.
#1stAmendment
I hate to (but will) stop watching CBS next if they settle.
Don’t they get how protection rackets work?
Morons