The reported settlement talks come after both ABC News and Meta settled cases with Trump before going to trial. In the latter case, Meta on Thursday decided to pay the president $25 million in order to drop a case he filed over being banned from Facebook following the January 6th Capitol riots. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been full-throated in his endorsement of President Trump since his election victory following an acrimonious relationship in his first term. Meta, coincidentally, is facing an antitrust trial in April seeking to unwind its acquisition of Instagram, a case that was filed by the Biden administration.
The lawsuit that President Trump filed against Paramount relies on an untested legal theory that CBS violated Texas law which prohibits deceptive trade practices in marketing to consumers. CBS promoted its interview with Harris on "Face the Nation" where she was shown giving a different answer from the one she gave in the full "60 Minutes" interview. CBS has said it aired a different portion of her answer during the promotional segment due to time constraints.
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Paramount is trying to complete a merger with film studio Skydance, which would produce billions of dollars in proceeds for Paramount's controlling shareholder Shari Redstone. The Times reports she is supportive of reaching a settlement with President Trump, whose new FCC chairman has control over TV broadcast licenses and has requested an unedited transcript of the Harris interview, potentially setting up Trump's administration to block the merger.
None of this should be surprising at this point. Major corporations are lining up to kiss the ring of President Trump in hopes that he will give them free reign to do whatever they would like without guardrails, or gain access to public funds and contracts, as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been able to quickly collect after giving President Trump the opportunity to take credit for major deals that would have likely happened anyway. In the case of Paramount, it will certainly cause a lot of reputational damage to the news outlets being thrown under the bus. But Trump gets to claim victory against "woke media" and his supporters will eat it up. Redstone probably does not care very much about the reporters at CBS anyway. It is all just business, as they would say.
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and nobody cares, or even reports on it. good luck everybody
It gets reported, but MAGA thinks it's hilarious and thrives on liberal tears regardless of how corrupt and bad for America it is
The old U.S. is dead.
Its what Americans voted for. To legalize and legitimize corruption
Its what 77 million out of an eligible 165 million voters, voted for.
Unfortunately 90 million didn't vote
Those 90 million deserve their suffering
Those 90 million fricked the world.
cancel your paramount plus if you have it - shitty Taylor Sheridan shows anyway
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They'll say this:
Let's gloss over the corruption and lack of integrity from journ*lists and the media, and then pitch about "guardrails" against people selling or retaining their property.
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as part of BLack history month (DKD) I will be increasing my black people gif usage !friendsofkong
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Public corruption is when a public company takes one of two options offered to every public company in an expensive lawsuit they would clearly lose
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Snapshots:
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What the fricking shit? This isn't how the US government is supposed to work. Pay to play at the highest level. Project 2025 apparently learned from video game companies. tight:
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