Dan eher über die 16 Millionen Dollar Trump-Siedlung von Paramount: „Es war ein Ausverkauf für die Erpressung des Präsidenten“
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/dan-rather-paramount-trump-suit-settlement-sell-out-1236446675/
Dan eher über die 16 Millionen Dollar Trump-Siedlung von Paramount: „Es war ein Ausverkauf für die Erpressung des Präsidenten“
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/dan-rather-paramount-trump-suit-settlement-sell-out-1236446675/
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From the article: Legendary former CBS News anchor Dan Rather expressed disappointment Wednesday at Paramount Global‘s decision to pay $16 million to the Trump administration and settle its lawsuit over a “60 Minutes” report.
“It’s a sad day for journalism,” Rather told Variety. “It’s a sad day for ’60 Minutes’ and CBS News. I hope people will read the details of this and understand what it was. It was distortion by the President and a kneeling down and saying, ‘yes, sir,’ by billionaire corporate owners.”
Most legal scholars agreed the suit — in which Trump accused “60 Minutes” of deceptively editing an interview with then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris — was frivolous and wouldn’t hold up under the First Amendment.
“What really gets me about this is that Paramount didn’t have to settle,” Rather said. “You settle a lawsuit when you’ve done something wrong. ’60 Minutes’ did nothing wrong. It followed accepted journalistic practices. Lawyers almost unanimously said the case wouldn’t stand up in court.”
Rather expressed a full backing of his former colleagues at CBS News and “60 Minutes”: “My support for them is total, absolute,” he said. “I do really think they fought a good fight on this, and they’ll continue to fight. The people on ’60 Minutes’ and at CBS News didn’t just take it lying down. They did their best to stop it.”
Nonetheless, he said he wasn’t shocked by Paramount Global’s settlement. The decision to strike a deal was widely seen as a critical step to receiving approval from the Trump-controlled FCC for Skydance’s $8 billion acquisition of the media conglom.
They insured I will never have anything to do with them again. There is a word for people who bend the knees to Nazis without fighting. And that word ain’t fucking nice.
– *”Under pressure from the FCC last winter, CBS released the tapes and transcript of the interview, and the raw materials confirmed that it engaged in normal editing, not any nefarious activity like Trump alleged.”* – https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/paramount-settles-trump-s-dubious-60-minutes-lawsuit-with-16-million-payout-and-no-apology/ar-AA1HNUNu
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This is literally a $16,000,000 BRIBE to a sitting president so that the Paramount-Skydance merger is approved by the FCC – *which is controlled by five commissioners* **appointed by the president of the United States**.
They bent the knee to authoritarianism.
These people have no shame. When President Slime Ball is gone, it will be remembered who kissed his ass.