One of the things this illustrates (though already well known of course) is how irrelevant television news operations have become. Not that long ago (within the adult lifetimes of most of the people on this list) the News Division was one of the diamonds in the Tiffany Crown of CBS. For anyone trying to acquire CBS, the credibility of the News Division would have been a primary asset. Today, obviously, the market values the credibility of a network news division at just about zero. Paramount owners (current and proposed) would rather whore out their news division than do anything to support it.
It’s been a long decline, and for many on this list the expiration date for TV News came a long time ago, but for me it will forever be the date of this agreement. Sent from Gmail Mobile On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 at 11:06 AM John Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJLXtMKpTdNYMmTJnDz2f_u2yVRod8_g7g6vsE%3DJOKW9Cow-WQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. 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