4mo ago

Defiant CBS suddenly comes out swinging in $20bn Trump lawsuit

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.

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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 .
- 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 hope everyone dealing with him recognizes this and stops trying to deal with him
- 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.
- 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.
- The can't legally make allowing the merger to be a conditionon a settlement agreement. So there'd be nothing to keep his petty ass from stopping it either way.
  They're greedy and would do anything for the merger, but Trump doesn't honor his deals.
- 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?
- 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...
  
  I don't think they really care whether they're dealing with a man or woman. They happily cut Bernie out of coverage as well in the primaries to favor Clinton.
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.
  
  Oh no doubt, but they thought they could appease him somehow. Now they're realizing that once you're on his list there's no getting back in his good graces. Peace was never an option.
  
  Even if it is about money it helps our country get these clowns closer to our
  
  Yes, but we take what we can get and push where we can push. We want them more financially afraid of fascist success than socialist success
Guess ABC is having briber's remorse and CBS got wise.
- Huh, can I have some clarification on this, guess I'm out of the loop.
  
  ABC agreed to settle a defamation lawsuit that they could have easily won. Apparently, they thought it would be better to just give Trump money than it would be to piss him off by fighting it.
  https://www.npr.org/2024/12/16/nx-s1-5230274/abc-settles-with-trump-for-15-million-now-he-wants-to-sue-other-news-outlets
- He will never let up on any mainstream media outlet until they are covering the news the way his favorite Conservative Propaganda Machine mouthpieces do.
- Lol
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? 😒
  
  Methanol increases sex hormone production and fertility. It's Elon's secret that the left is hiding from you. But you gotta build it up like those people do with hydrogen peroxide.
  Actually we might just loudly decaying the h2o2 people. It's just water with more oxygen, what could go wrong
  
  if methanol was so bad, why doesn't the government want you to drink it!?
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.
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.
- Why did you delete?
This is the thing that distinguishes the intellect of orbán and trump. Orbán developed what he officially named "the system of national collaboration" with an unofficial motto of "those with us will thrive [and those who are against us will struggle]". So initially they made sure that it was a lucrative thing to align with the system making it very inconvenient for systematic resistance to emerge. Trump seems to be failing this idea already in the acute phase: maintaining pressure even when companies realign with him makes it much more convenient to push back straight up...
'comes out swinging' is any reaction that's not giving up and paying 20 billion to the class bully?
- 'comes out swinging' is any reaction thats not paying the legalized bribe that is the demanded settlement when trump files a bullshit lawsuit against you, so you can pay him to keep access.
  
  It's not about being legal or not. They do illegal shit all the time
Good for them - in this one particular situation
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.
  
  That's fair, I'm quite a bit early to this party.
  
  Or being screamed at by our children who now have a sleep pattern disrupted.
- don't punish someone when they do the right thing. this is the minimum. i'm glad they're doing it, but it's not where i'm placing my hopes for the future
- I think we can do without this sort of reddit-like passive aggressive backbiting here.
  
  Nah I'm good thanks
- You're the first one here and you're complaining everyone is late.
- Your takes are so bad I am starting to recognize your username when I see it randomly
  
  If you use boost you can give them a costume tag. Very helpful with certain types
  
  I recognize you as well, the only interaction I think we've ever had was you getting upset because I expressed dislike for Adam Connover.

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