Summary
CBS has moved to dismiss Donald Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, calling it an attack on the First Amendment.
Trump alleges CBS edited the interview to harm him politically, citing “voter interference.” CBS attorneys argue the lawsuit seeks to punish “constitutionally protected editorial judgments” and is “without basis in law or fact.”
If not dismissed, CBS wants it moved to New York, where its headquarters is located.
The move comes as a surprise because CBS had considered settling to avoid delaying its $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, which requires regulatory approval.
CBS realized if they gave in, Trump had no plans of stopping attacks whatsoever. So if you’re gonna get attacked anyways, you might as well fight back .
Yeah, I recently read a Guardian article about how the crackdown on non-violent protestors in the UK is leading climate activists to a little more, uh, active forms of protest. If you’re going to jail for five years anyway, you might as well make it count.
This is the way
Yeah, this is the only logical move they have. Good to see someone still has ethical brains in business these days.
I’m sure it works the same way with the mafia. I doubt companies that pay extortion to the mafia only do a one-time payment.
What makes you think this is not going to be a recurring thing if they settle this one?
That’s exactly my point. Bending over and taking it is not going to do them any favors, since little d will be back at it anyway.
Corporations and their owners thought that Trump would boost the stock market through tax cuts. Instead the market is tanking due to his moronic tariffs and Russia-appeasement strategy. Now that it’s clear he won’t be making them money they have rediscovered their “morals”.
I hope this is true. I’ve always hoped that the one think that might save us is MAGA’s virtuosic incompetence.
Maybe this time.
The policies of the Nazi party took a while to fully implement. Even after the Enabling Act, it took a while before anyone felt it. With each dumb policy, fascists need to double down on blaming outside actors. They have to do this, because this is the only way they can cover for their failures.
The problem this time is they are implementing three years of policy changes per week. It happened too fast, and their attempts to blame others aren’t taking root.
More generally, people should be more aware of how things are different in this regime compared to 1930s Germany. The comparison is obvious, but we’ll miss opportunities if we think everything is the same.
CBS helped elect this clown. I distinctly recall in 2015 CBS cutting away from live Hillary Clinton rallies in the middle of her speech to instead go live to Trump’s empty podium before he even came out on stage.
I have no sympathy for what this administration does to the oligarchs legacy media corps now. And fuck Washington Post especially
Jeff Bezos to be specific. WP is basically just a shell now.
I distinctly recall in 2015 CBS cutting away from live Hillary Clinton rallies in the middle of her speech to instead go live to Trump’s empty podium before he even came out on stage.
Yeah, but he’s a MAN. A bigly important BUSINESS man, too, no less. So obviously it’s much more important to get all ready to hear what he is going to say, as opposed to broadcasting some mere woman - who everyone is saying is incredibly shrill and omg, that laugh [1], amirite? - and any of her so-called ideas.
/s, just in case anyone thinks that real…
[1] If anyone needs evidence of just how skewed coverage is of Hillary (and Kamala) vs. little d, examining how they talk about their laugh is instructive. I mean, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen donnie ever have what looks like a genuine human emotion when it comes to humor. He does that weird grimace when he or someone else is punching down on someone. But have you ever seen the guy laugh at a joke or something that is not mean-spirited? The guy seems like he’s just very unhappy, and I find that far more weird than anything about Hillary or Kamala’s laugh. I think a lot of weak men hear a woman laughing and assume it’s AT THEM, so that’s why there was so much time spent on talking about it…
Maybe if ya boy Reagan didn’t kill the news fairness act we wouldn’t fucking be here at all. Fuck Regan. Fuck Nixon. And fuck Trump.
deleted by creator
Demanding $20 billion for editorial discretion? This lawsuit screams desperation, not justice.
😺😺😺🐱
It screams judicial intimidation and abuse. How does he claim $20 billion in damages when he WON the fucking election? Hes been in office for less than 3 months, and he’s already made more than that from his various scams.
Every single trump voter and supporter should drink a gallon of methanol. It’ll protect them from measles.
sadly, if we told them the “dems definitely don’t want you to drink methanol, because it’s bad for you”, there’d be some who’d do it out of spite. this is literally what’s happening with vaccines, but one’s mental blindness leading to physical blindness has some poetry to it.
Just imagine if something deadlier than the covid virus infiltrated this country. And somebody developed a vaccine for it and these idiots wouldn’t take it.
Oh wait, has anybody heard about what’s happening in the Congo lately? 😒
the problem is exactly what we see with measles.
- children who have no choice are the ones who suffer the consequences
- because most vaccines cannot be 100% effective (e.g., I got 3 extra MMR shots and I still don’t have detectable measles antibody levels despite being fully immunocompetent), they do rely on herd immunity protecting those who don’t mount full responses to the shots.
The thing about public health is that it’s public interest over personal choices. In a functioning free society those personal choices would still align with public interest based on the understanding of societal good. So the antagonism is totally artificial.
Interesting signs when corporations are starting to push back. Glad to see a news organization being at the front of the charge.
The motivation is still about money. It’s a corporation.
In the short term, the motivation doesn’t matter as long as they’re on the right side.
It means you can’t trust them, but motivation is not the issue.
Weird, if this post were critical of the liberal media it would have tens of comments. Suddenly they do something good and we’re all quiet and shit.
EDIT: This comment was at one point 12-0 and now it’s 17-69 which really just proves my point about suspicious activity all over communities that share news.
Dude, it was posted 25 minutes ago. Give it time to reach. Also, most of the US is dealing with daylight savings time today and is probably sleeping in.
