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Watch Scott Pelley Read Paramount For *Filth* Over Its Meddling In '60 Minutes'
Via Wonkette: https://www.wonkette.com/p/watch-scott-pelley-read-paramount
Not since Rachel Maddow has anybody told off their TV bosses so hard!
Not since Rachel Maddow has anybody told off their TV bosses so hard!
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To backstory, since last July CBS’s parent company Paramount Global — controlled by Shari Redstone, who inherited it from her father Sumner — has been trying to merge with Skydance Media, an entertainment company backed by the billionaire Larry Ellison and run by his son David. Just two multimillionaire nepo babies trying to make it in a cold, cruel world.
But the FCC must approve the merger, and of course Trump and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr are in charge of that. And Carr is a Project 2025 author who has long put it right out there that he thinks the FCC and government should be in the business of monitoring platforms and shutting them down if they won’t push right-wing propaganda.
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To backstory, since last July CBS’s parent company Paramount Global — controlled by Shari Redstone, who inherited it from her father Sumner — has been trying to merge with Skydance Media, an entertainment company backed by the billionaire Larry Ellison and run by his son David. Just two multimillionaire nepo babies trying to make it in a cold, cruel world.
But the FCC must approve the merger, and of course Trump and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr are in charge of that. And Carr is a Project 2025 author who has long put it right out there that he thinks the FCC and government should be in the business of monitoring platforms and shutting them down if they won’t push right-wing propaganda.
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