No, and Paramount rolling over shows that it's unnecessary. All the sentient Cheeto has to do is sabre-rattle in the direction of something the parent company wants, and they have shown that they will bend and submit.
John On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you think Kristi Noem is going to barge into the Ed with ICE agents > during a taping to arrest Colbert to have him deported, then go to 30 Rock > to arrest Seth Meyers and then to the "TDS" studio to arrest the Greatest > F--king News Team Ever--all during actual tapings? It does seem to me that > you're going to have angry audience members once they realize this isn't a > gag and that a lot of bad stuff is going to go down and there will be > bloodshed--or do they think that's what Fox News, Newsmax and OAN want? > > Mark Jeffries > [email protected] > > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> And I'd venture to guess that this still gives *le gros orange carte >> blanche* to fvck with late night, for example. B >> >> PGage, July 2nd: >> >> “Paramount said late Tuesday that it has agreed to pay President Trump >> $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on the >> CBS News program “60 Minutes,” an extraordinary concession to a sitting >> president by a major media organization. >> >> Paramount said its payment includes Mr. Trump’s legal fees and costs and >> that the money, minus the legal fees, will be paid to Mr. Trump’s future >> presidential library. >> >> As part of the settlement, Paramount said that it had agreed to release >> written transcripts of future “60 Minutes” interviews with presidential >> candidates. The company said that the settlement did not include an apology. >> >> The deal is the clearest sign yet that Mr. Trump’s ability to intimidate >> major American institutions extends to the media industry. >> >> Many lawyers had dismissed Mr. Trump’s lawsuit as baseless and believed >> that CBS would have ultimately prevailed in court, in part because the >> network did not report anything factually inaccurate, and the First >> Amendment gives publishers wide leeway to determine how to present >> information. >> >> But Shari Redstone, the chair and controlling shareholder of Paramount, >> told her board that she favored exploring a settlement >> <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/business/dealbook/redstone-paramount-skydance-deal.html> >> with Mr. Trump. Some executives at the company viewed the president’s >> lawsuit as a potential hurdle to completing a multibillion-dollar sale >> <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/business/media/paramount-skydance-merger-deal.html> >> of the company to the Hollywood studio Skydance, which requires the Trump >> administration’s approval.” >> >> >> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/business/media/paramount-trump-60-minutes-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/0c51a691-f004-483a-8fe3-690a1c2b09e0n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/0c51a691-f004-483a-8fe3-690a1c2b09e0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi9-xwNTAX4nNF4D%3Dk3Tg%3DGw1cTqDZAj%2B7kx8LVWHnANHg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi9-xwNTAX4nNF4D%3Dk3Tg%3DGw1cTqDZAj%2B7kx8LVWHnANHg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- John Edwards "You can insure against the weather, but you can't insure against incompetence, can you?" - Phil Tufnell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJLXtMKpTdNYMmTJnDz2f_u2yVRod8_g7g6vsE%3DJOKW9Cow-WQ%40mail.gmail.com.
