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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.

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

Like I said, the trump allied Ellisons are not going to be subtle when it comes to any of this

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

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Girlzilla Kathy

@girlzillla.bsky.social

18 July 2025

Maybe he’ll return to Comedy Central and host the Daily Show.

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

18 July 2025

Also these media mergers are always inherently shitty. Create huge debt loads and oodles of layoffs in exchange for a lot of lies about synergies.

la-crystal.bsky.social

@la-crystal.bsky.social

18 July 2025

So they'll be going after the Fox audience, then? lol I also wonder if the advertisers will stick around if they lose even more audience with this deal.

Dan Barton

@danbarton.bsky.social

18 July 2025

This will create a media opportunity. For a different revenue model or approach. I’m guessing Colbert will be just fine (not that he already isn’t just fine).🤞