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Dan Gillmor Jul 18, 2025

CBS, soon to be owned by Larry Ellison and family, is wasting no time turning into just another right-wing media company.

Paying Trump's extortion, trial-ballooning a "Free Press" buyout, canceling Colbert (and soon Stewart?) -- there's nothing mysterious in this pattern.

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/17/nx-s1-5471581/cbs-stephen-colbert-late-show

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Diego Barros

@dangillmor Let's not forget the Jon Stewart vs. Apple incident from a couple of years ago. Where he left because Apple wanted control of the show's content.

I bet that if today Stewart said something on Apple TV against Trump, something that Trump and MAGA supporter Tim Cook didn't like, his show would be cancelled too.