Are they bringing back The Battle Of The Network Stars?
Posted on 05/10/2025 8:23:17 AM PDT by Libloather
Pressure is mounting on Paramount Global from both the inside and outside as it considers settling a high-stakes lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump.
Lawyers for Trump and Paramount entered mediation last week, signaling the company’s potential willingness to resolve the whopping $20 billion suit filed by Trump accusing CBS News of election interference over its handling of the “60 Minutes” interview last year with then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
That interview, which was part of a primetime election special that also featured her Democratic running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, earned an Emmy nomination last week for Outstanding Edited Interview. Trump slammed the “totally discredited” Emmys on Truth Social in response.
A group of Democratic lawmakers, including Senators Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., made a direct plea to Shari Redstone, Paramount’s controlling shareholder, to not settle the lawsuit, saying it would be a “grave mistake.”
“Rewarding Trump with tens of millions of dollars for filing this bogus lawsuit will not cause him to back down on his war against the media and a free press,” Sanders and the Democrats wrote to Redstone on Tuesday. “It will only embolden him to shakedown, extort and silence CBS and other media outlets that have the courage to report about issues that Trump may not like.”
Their message may fall on deaf ears as it was previously reported that Redstone was in favor of settling the lawsuit in hopes of paving the way for Paramount’s planned merger with Skydance Media and preventing potential retribution by Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which has the authority to halt the multibillion-dollar transaction.
Redstone not only wanted to reportedly “keep tabs” on upcoming “60 Minutes” segments involving Trump, she reportedly urged CBS execs to delay any sensitive reporting on Trump until after the merger deal closed...
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Every day they delay, it’s another $1B.
I’m very happy for DJT, but why isn’t there a MAGA backload of these types of lawsuits? Every day is a new political lie affecting elections, either immediately or down the road.
No mention of the fact that the FCC could revoke CBS broadcast license. In effect putting them out of business.
The licensed to broadcast in the public interest. If you cover up that one of the major candidates for the office of the presidency can't put together a coherent thought during an interview, you are not broadcasting in the public interest. It is in the public interest that the voting public knows that Kamala Harris is an idiot.
There needs to be no monetary settlement. CBS needs to take 60 Minutes off the air permanently. Let the left call it censorship. Counter it with a ‘self’ censorship. Either that or an offer they can’t refuse. Trump has them by the balls and he needs no settlement money. The fans of that show are left leaning and need their information in quick sound bites.
Then rub it in the nose of Dan Rather.
I actually hope they don’t settle
Discovery is going to be entertaining
The “stars” referred to in the headline are Maddow and Stephen Colbert.
Lol
I really want to see the emails and voice mails dealing with editing that interview like a hostage note made from cut apart letters from a magazine.
"Redstone not only wanted to reportedly “keep tabs” on upcoming “60 Minutes” segments involving Trump, she reportedly urged CBS execs to delay any sensitive reporting on Trump until after the merger deal closed..."
In other words, let us settle then you can get back to bashing President Trump.
Oddly they deserve the prize. It is not easy to turn a babbling idiot word salad interview into reasonable sounding person. Those technicians were skilled and worked hard to make this political fraud.
“… including Senators Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.…”
Always playing fast and loose with other people’s money.
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TBS.
“cbs stars”? I dont get it.....
There’s nothing bogus about it, Senator Bogus Sanders.
This is the second most notorious example of gross election interference by CBS. The top was the phony Texas ANG letter in 2004. Bush should have sued, but he was a "nice" Republican. And the poster child for what "nice" gets you versus Democrats. Trump is a New Yorker from Queens and not to be F'ed with.
“ Rewarding Trump with tens of millions of dollars…”
They left of a couple of zeroes.
Who loves ya baby
59 minutes 60 seconds will take it’s place. same poop new smell. They will not censor themselves for long if at all.
it’s gotta hurt or its a waste of time.
I thought after the recent Scott Pelley fiasco, Trump would come out & double it
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