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1. CBS sells itself to Trump's billionaire allies for $8 billion. 2. Trump manages to exort CBS for $16 million just for fun, leveraging some fake investigations at the FCC. 3. CBS fuses with Bari Weiss' bullshit machine to create another massive new right wing propaganda outlet. Easy peasy.

nypost.comSkydance reportedly in talks to buy Bari Weiss’ The Free Press — is CBS News role in her future?Sources speculate that Weiss could play a major role in reshaping CBS News, which has been plagued by criticism of a left-wing bias.

To be clear Larry Ellison, a billionaire Trump donor who believed the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, used his own money to buy CBS and install his son as the boss. They'll then convert CBS into another right wing propaganda mill like Fox News. It's not really subtle!

finance.yahoo.comLarry Ellison Invests $6 Billion in Son David’s Paramount TakeoverThe family office is funding the majority of the $8 billion merger with Skydance as RedBird Capital Partners makes up the remaining quarter The post Larry Ellison Invests $6 Billion in Son David’s Par...

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well the pretense will be that the son is a very big boy who succeeded on the merits, of course. But the network's journalism will be dictated by the real boss.

meanwhile you have Schumer over here trying to leverage the Epstein scandal to "pressure" the FCC to drop a fake investigation into CBS (which would have been dropped anyway because it no longer serves its function of bullying CBS). With no mention of what Republicans are actually doing.

markey.senate.govSenator Markey, Leader Schumer Call on FCC to Stop Partisan Games, Drop Frivolous CBS Investigation in Light of Fox News’ Misleading Editing of Trump’s Epstein Comments | U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Mas...The FCC is pursuing an investigation into CBS’ edits of an October 2024 interview with then-Vice...

very very few Dems are competently able to message what the Republicans are doing to U.S. journalism, the media, and informed consensus. It's very very bad and the hour is getting very very late.

Congress People and also many journalists seem to be in shock and are unable to articulate these censorship attempts to raise awareness about these attacks on the Freedom of the Press. Informing the public is the only thing both Congressional minorities and journalists can do imo.

democrats have found themselves in the uncomfortable position of being exactly as beholden to billionaires as republicans, so they feel they can't cross ellison or any media or tech billionaires. same reason newsome gushes about how he admires the fascist musk. they are cowed by the money.

He's calling out Carr's double standard, not just asking to drop the investigation. But it is also true that on the right, pundits would have a field day with even something like this (and do every time James Comer writes a letter). Why weren't more lefty pundits magnifying Durbin's letter today?

Maybe he conditioned the agreement on terminating Colbert bsky.app/profile/wash...

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Breaking news: “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, CBS said in a statement. The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.

hopefully the death of traditional cable coincides with their efforts, and people of conscious can shift people to better, more ethical alternatives

Even if that’s the case, though, there *will* for sure always be televised right-wing propaganda media, I believe, either privately funded or state. And if that’s all that’s left, it’s a problem, because there will always be a sizable segment that will opt for it as the easiest way to get news.

1.) That old man looks entirely too much like Mickey Rourke to not have had some serious work done 2.) Why do all the sons of wealthy people smile like that? Is it something they learn? Does having money from birth cause some kind of brain damage?

20yrs from now, He will call himself a 'self-made man', like daddy's 6 Billion didn't help. SMH. Well, if they can help one another, so can we. HELP RESTART $5, $10, $20—every bit helps. This isn’t a handout. It’s a do-over. 🔗 gofund.me/a0243a4a #RealHelp

Yet another good reason to tax the billionaire oligarchs out of existence. As it is, there's NOTHING to STOP them BUYING A NATION! We see this STARTING... Imagine a Super-Class - separated in their SECURE ENCLAVES. Others, provisioned to survive and SERVE. Science fiction brought to REALITY.

... and unfortunately, a lot of @cbsnews.com reporters have already long been on board & are OK with being part of the right-wing propaganda machine. CBS News keeps giving Americans too many reasons to not trust its news. The days of Cronkite & Murrow are dead forever at CBS.

Years ago Larry was borderline cool. He envisioned the cloud we all use today, he put time and money into sailing, including winning the America’s Cup, he studied the code of the Bushido, and even dated Sharon Stone. WTF happened to him???

Back in 2011, Bryan Cantrill, who was with Sun Microsystems when Oracle acquired them, said a line which I think of often: "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison".

OMG -- Larry Ellison was always a crook. I am 100% confident that he does NOT believe the election was stolen, but lying. That's what he does. A totally dishonest tech guy notorious for premature claims a product was working, and then sending blank tapes to the customer, until it finally did.

possibly. And they're already kind of half-integrated with Oracle hosting a lot of their U.S. operations "for national security reasons" The Republican effort to dominate the entirety of new and old media is obvious, but the press has never been able to cover it accurately.

Nothing they do is subtle anymore. Masked men in vans are rounding up people off the street. Tons of food is being incinerated to starve children. The Senate is about to confirm Bove to a lifelong Federal bench, that is probably a fast track to the Supreme Court, that said F the courts!!

And the list of insanity goes on.. Ripping healthcare from people in desperate circumstances. Taking the lgbtq+ suicide hotline for teens offline (they don't like gay people, so they're punishing kids in crisis). Laughing about feeding 65m ppl to gators. Its just one big, loud, wealthy murder cult.

I quit watching CBS after the 60 minutes debacle minus The Late Show. Still watching the show only. It will be my swan song when he’s gone. Only watch The View on ABC as well. When or if NBC goes rogue I will stop cable and stream every thing i enjoy.

you shouldn't. There's a handful of good outlets (Wired, PropPublica, a variety of indie outlets) but there's just so much corporatist garbage now.

"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end." @bcantrill.bsky.social

yeah that's the great irony is that network had already been tripping over themselves to please Republicans for years. And being disemboweled by Republicans was their ultimate reward. Congratulations.

"Skydance Media, which is slated to acquire Paramount Global, the parent of both CBS and Comedy Central. David Ellison, who leads Skydance, has projected an image of being intrigued by the politics espoused by President Donald Trump..." variety.com/2025/tv/news...

variety.comCBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’CBS said it planned to cancel Stephen Colbert's Late Show after next season, citing the weakening finances of late night

billionaires generally don't like journalism that challenges wealth and power Any media reforms have to be creatively crowdfunded or paid for via public dollars

Larry Ellison and any progeny he may have spawned are hollow cunt-bros who think wealth equals winning. He was a despicable pile of shite 30 years ago and has only become more so with age. 🖕