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Maybe he’ll return to Comedy Central and host the Daily Show.

So they'll be going after the Fox audience, then? lol I also wonder if the advertisers will stick around if they lose even more audience with this deal.

This will create a media opportunity. For a different revenue model or approach. I’m guessing Colbert will be just fine (not that he already isn’t just fine).🤞

Who cares about subtlety? Trump Deux has been as subtle as a jackhammer at a funeral.

Financial decision? That’s BS. His show was extremely popular. This is bc T wanted it gone. CBS wants its merger approved.

Financial my ass. We see you, CBS.

It’s the last season of Hacks in real life!

Bribery... conspiracies... billionaires...nepo babies... sounds like a movie. Maybe even a Paramount movie. 🍿

Good bye CBS and Paramount!

the problem (for me) is all the deals are usually on the ad-laden tiers, and I fucking hate sitting through ads

Not suttle but so wrong😡

well the pretense will be that the son is a very big boy who succeeded on the merits, of course. But the network's journalism will be dictated by the real boss.

Mystery solved.

🤔

Congress People and also many journalists seem to be in shock and are unable to articulate these censorship attempts to raise awareness about these attacks on the Freedom of the Press. Informing the public is the only thing both Congressional minorities and journalists can do imo.

Give me a microphone

it is not that they can't. it is that they won't.

He's calling out Carr's double standard, not just asking to drop the investigation. But it is also true that on the right, pundits would have a field day with even something like this (and do every time James Comer writes a letter). Why weren't more lefty pundits magnifying Durbin's letter today?

it's not a kitchen table issue!

Real communication grows increasingly a dying art, as what once passed for it has now degenerated into mere passive-aggression, slights, insults, and naked hostility more often than not and typically without cause.

The Senate Democrats HAVE TO elect a new minority head! Schumer has no teeth, he keeps them in a glass on his nightstand.

Maybe he conditioned the agreement on terminating Colbert bsky.app/profile/wash...

DESTROY. PARAMOUNT. The oligarchy must die. It is a survival imperative.

Shit begets shit.

oh absolutely. it's the brunchlord way!

Oracle/Ellison is also a CIA asset gizmodo.com/larry-elliso...

None of these people (including Trump) "believe" the election was stolen. Trump says it because he's a spoiled toddler and the rest say it to win his favor.

Obscene wealth needs to be curbed. Tax the rich!

That explains why Stephen Colbert’s show got cancelled.

Even if that’s the case, though, there *will* for sure always be televised right-wing propaganda media, I believe, either privately funded or state. And if that’s all that’s left, it’s a problem, because there will always be a sizable segment that will opt for it as the easiest way to get news.

CBS as I knew it died at least 10 years ago.

Is that why Steven Colbert was fired? Then Colbert should walk away and not make another dime for CBS.

In a real government this would be considered a monopoly and would never be approved.

I'm not watching Paramount + or CBS anymore sry Jorgie and Mandy.

1.) That old man looks entirely too much like Mickey Rourke to not have had some serious work done 2.) Why do all the sons of wealthy people smile like that? Is it something they learn? Does having money from birth cause some kind of brain damage?

Tax billionaires

Well, at least we can collectively bankrupt the operation, simply by not watching.

Bill Gates

Warren Buffett

20yrs from now, He will call himself a 'self-made man', like daddy's 6 Billion didn't help. SMH. Well, if they can help one another, so can we. HELP RESTART $5, $10, $20—every bit helps. This isn’t a handout. It’s a do-over. 🔗 gofund.me/a0243a4a #RealHelp

Yet another good reason to tax the billionaire oligarchs out of existence. As it is, there's NOTHING to STOP them BUYING A NATION! We see this STARTING... Imagine a Super-Class - separated in their SECURE ENCLAVES. Others, provisioned to survive and SERVE. Science fiction brought to REALITY.

Yep! It's about propaganda and it's not subtle.

yeah the industry is filled with traumatized people keeping their heads down just to keep a job, just like ownership likes it

I don't watch the news anymore

Years ago Larry was borderline cool. He envisioned the cloud we all use today, he put time and money into sailing, including winning the America’s Cup, he studied the code of the Bushido, and even dated Sharon Stone. WTF happened to him???

There is no viable 4th estate

Wow, didn't know the devil himself was involved in this

True ?

Completing its transition to "See B.S."!

Better a pig than Larry.

behold: brunchlord

Gave me the same cold chill of looking into evil eyes that I get with Peter Thiel.

Seems like an appropriate time to mention that Walmart has been paired with Paramount Plus for quite some time so if you don't like what Paramount's doing....

Meritocracy At Work: Slow Down & Admire

Finally a chance to make Star Trek anti-woke like it was in the 60s

I cancelled my Paramount Plus subscription. There is nothing good that can come from an Ellison owning CBS.

We are DONE with CBS.

After the revolution we really can't allow "billionaires" anymore. Turns out that was a really bad idea.

If they've lost the Ghost of Cronkite, they've lost their soul.

Larry’s on the list too ofc

They look like another species.

Back in 2011, Bryan Cantrill, who was with Sun Microsystems when Oracle acquired them, said a line which I think of often: "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison".

We should have laws against this.

Fox conversion is already underway. See e.g. their affinity for Big Oil: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

OMG -- Larry Ellison was always a crook. I am 100% confident that he does NOT believe the election was stolen, but lying. That's what he does. A totally dishonest tech guy notorious for premature claims a product was working, and then sending blank tapes to the customer, until it finally did.

Of course they will.

I thought that Ellison name rang a bell! Ugh.

The entertainment division is going to die.

Why didn't they steal the 2024 election then Larry, you goddamn fuck

Boycott CBS!

No more CBS or Paramount for me!!

I doubt Ellison or anybody like him actually "believed" the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. He looks like the kind of guy very happy to embrace the Big Lie theory of politics.

It’s not republicans or dems dominating media.. it’s oligarchs. Those oligarchs own both republican and democratic parties. Believing this is a partisan issue is how we got here. It’s a class issue.

It’s a long damn list. Too long for the character maximum of a post. Hate and stupidity, in all its forms.

I quit watching CBS after the 60 minutes debacle minus The Late Show. Still watching the show only. It will be my swan song when he’s gone. Only watch The View on ABC as well. When or if NBC goes rogue I will stop cable and stream every thing i enjoy.

Collaborator Broadcasting System ☹️

Cut the cord and sign on to Sling, which doesn't carry CBS in its basic packages!

Welp, another subscription canceled.

I canceled paramount +

Let them kill it ... i'm done.

Not a nepo-hire at all. Totally meritocracy we have here.

I watch and read mostly European news covering USA, I don't trust US Media anymore.

Not the point, but why can't ANY wealthy people get decent plastic surgery?? Why do they all walk around botched? All that money and they look ridiculous

Nepo baby🤨

So over these Nepo babies who have no skills and no morality.

This should work out fine…like Tesla

"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end." @bcantrill.bsky.social

yeah that's the great irony is that network had already been tripping over themselves to please Republicans for years. And being disemboweled by Republicans was their ultimate reward. Congratulations.

Fuck these thugs and fuck @paramountpictures.bsky.social

You should really consider not attaching yourself to a pedophile

"Skydance Media, which is slated to acquire Paramount Global, the parent of both CBS and Comedy Central. David Ellison, who leads Skydance, has projected an image of being intrigued by the politics espoused by President Donald Trump..." variety.com/2025/tv/news...

billionaires generally don't like journalism that challenges wealth and power Any media reforms have to be creatively crowdfunded or paid for via public dollars

I thought this was a well written summary of the overall situation www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

where are the non-MAGA billionaires and why aren’t they buying media companies. @mcuban.bsky.social step up my man you an alpha or a b*tch

I doubt there's a market for another Fox News. More likely it will just be toothless, banal, politics-free entertainment, bread and circuses.

It is disgusting how the "Billionaire" class is destroying everything.

I’m a little embarrassed to say that I didn’t know about Ellison’s part in this CBS thing… but at least it makes things MUCH clearer to me now.

Larry Ellison and any progeny he may have spawned are hollow cunt-bros who think wealth equals winning. He was a despicable pile of shite 30 years ago and has only become more so with age. 🖕

correct

What has Ellison Sr done to his face? He's looking like a bearded Jocelyn Wildenstein.

The son looks like Eric Trump and Andrew Giuliani. Were their 3 putative fathers buying in sperm?