{"id":44890,"date":"2025-04-23T12:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=44890"},"modified":"2025-04-23T12:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:47:13","slug":"looks-like-cbs-paramount-is-about-to-surrender-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=44890","title":{"rendered":"Looks like CBS\/Paramount is about to surrender to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. Late last year just before the election that restored the Greatest President of the 21st<\/sup> Century, Donald Trump to his rightful place in the White House, President Trump sued CBS. This was brought about when 60 Minutes basically cooked an interview with Kamala Harris to make her look less like the moron she is.<\/p>\n


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This obvious election interference, technically a \u201cContribution in Kind\u201d resulted in a $20 billion dollar lawsuit against CBS and Paramount. This came at absolutely the worst possible time for Paramount. They are just about to close a deal to be taken over by Skydance. It looks like the Trump team and Paramount are coming to terms. Both have agreed to mediation apparently. However, it looks like CBS News and 60 Minutes are not happy. The producer for 60 minutes has left in a huff. Here are the details from the New York Post<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201c60 Minutes\u201d executive producer Bill Owens abruptly quit on Tuesday, citing a loss of journalistic independence as CBS\u2019 parent company, Paramount Global, looks to settle a lawsuit from President Trump.<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for \u201860 Minutes,\u2019 right for the audience,\u201d Owens wrote in a memo to staff that was obtained by The Post. <\/b><\/p>\n

He added: \u201cSo, having defended this show \u2014 and what we stand for \u2014 from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

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From what I\u2019ve been reading, Bill Owens is only the third producer that 60 Minutes has ever had, and they\u2019ve been on the air for almost 60 years. They\u2019ve also had problems in the past with manufacturing stories and controversies. One of the biggest ones was the Killian documents controversy<\/a>. That was the case where CBS ran a story regarding then President George H. Bush\u2019s stint in the Air National Guard. The documents were quickly found to be really poor forgeries. It led to the infamous phrase \u201cFake but accurate.\u201d In the end, it destroyed the career of Dan Rather and a few others in CBS.<\/p>\n

Inside the halls of CBS, there are whispers that Lesley Stahl, who has reported for \u201c60 Minutes\u201d since 1991,\u201d also could likely step down and finally retire.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

Good riddance to bad trash.<\/p>\n

Stahl, 83, had been at the center of Trump\u2019s ire after she interviewed him in 2020<\/a> and claimed that the Hunter Biden Laptop story could not be verified. Trump has called for Stahl and the program to apologize<\/a>, but his requests were ignored.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

Back in 2020, that laptop being verified as real would have sunk the Democrats plans to get rid of President Trump. There was a full court press to bury that story, including an active conspiracy in the FBI to cover it up.<\/p>\n

Once the news broke and people could see just how corrupt the entire Biden family is, polls showed that people who had voted for Biden would have voted for Trump instead, a third party candidate or just stayed home. All of this is, along with the pending sale to Skydance has people inside CBS running scared.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are terrified and the fact that Bill Owens is out means nobody is safe,\u201d the insider said.\u00a0\u201cI think he jumped before he was fired.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

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I suspect that was the case. People at the top are not happy with how things have been going within the News division.<\/p>\n

The Post previously reported that Paramount controlling shareholder Shari Redstone, who is involved in settlement talks between Trump and her company,\u00a0had been vocal about wanting Owens out.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

A \u201clivid\u201d Redstone, whose family stands to pocket about $1.75 billion if the $8 billion merger with Skydance Media goes through, allegedly pressed McMahon to fire Owens for airing of a one-sided January report on the Gaza War.\u00a0<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t see any of the CBS reporting on the Israeli war against Hamas. Of course, I haven\u2019t watched the legacy Network News channels in decades. If I want Leftist propaganda, I\u2019ll just turn on MSNBC. (Which I don\u2019t do either. I have a functioning brain)<\/p>\n

Trump, meanwhile, has filed a $20 billion lawsuit accusing the program of \u201cunlawful and illegal behavior\u201d for what he claims was deceptive editing of a \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris last October <\/b><\/p>\n

Unfortunately for CBS and 60 Minutes, raw footage of the Harris interview was released and it showed that, not surprisingly, Harris couldn\u2019t string to consecutive sentences together.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is Trump settling scores,\u201d a CBS insider told The Post. \u201cHe got his head.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

No actually, he got a head. He wants plenty more, like all of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was pushed out,\u201d the person speculated, recalling that Owens had defiantly told staffers: \u201cI will not apologize.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

That is the problem. He and the rest of these communists actually think they are in the right and that anything they do that pushes the goal of single party Democrat rule is a good thing. Still, it looks like he might not be missed all that much.<\/p>\n

A CBS insider said that while Owens\u2019 exit is loss for the network, he hasn\u2019t had any wins in recent years. <\/b><\/p>\n

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Owens also will give up his role overseeing \u201cCBS Evening News,\u201d which one insider claimed he has \u201crun into the ground\u201d since it replaced anchor Norah O\u2019Donnell and relaunched the show with co-hosts Jeff Dickerson and Maurice DuBois. The show, which relaunched in January, debuted with 5.2 million total viewers, but in recent weeks its viewership has dipped to the 3.7 million-range. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cOwens\u2019 version of \u201cCBS Evening News has failed\u201d and \u201c60 Minutes has become the headquarters of book and movie launches,\u201d the insider said. \u201cIt is not the home of the investigative journalism of Mike Wallace anymore.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

If it ever was such a thing as investigative journalism. I\u2019m not surprised that their news ratings have crashed. Most of the legacy media are experiencing ratings drop off. Most of this is due to their customer base dropping dead of old age.<\/p>\n

The person said that the program has also become a \u201cmouthpiece\u201d for the left. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery allegation of bias only tilts one way and it\u2019s always in the favor of the Democrats,\u201d the source added. <\/b><\/p>\n

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I suspect that an agreement is in the offing to settle the suit. Once that has been cleared, then Paramount can be sold to Skydance. It will be interesting to see what Skydance does with CBS News. They might decide the time is right for a full blown fumigation. If that happens, we could see a complete rebuilding of CBS into a network worth paying attention to. That or they just kill it all off sand sell off the remains for scrap. In any case, good riddance to Bill Owens. Don\u2019t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.<\/p>\n

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