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 .
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
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
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.
if methanol was so bad, why doesn’t the government want you to drink 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.
My enemy’s enemy…
Good for them - in this one particular situation
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.
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…
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.
Or being screamed at by our children who now have a sleep pattern disrupted.
My kiddo gifted me the opportunity to see my watch change from 1:59 to 3:00am this morning!
Oh wow! I’ve yet to see that. What a great opportunity your munchkin provided!
Haha
Good luck napping later!
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 think we can do without this sort of reddit-like passive aggressive backbiting here.
Nah I’m good thanks
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
You’re the first one here and you’re complaining everyone is late.
