Under Trump, Paramount's Merger Deal Must Include a "Bias Monitor" The company also had to agree to ditch its DEI progra

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I will NOT be renewing my subscription to Paramount this fall. i just informed them of that!!




July 26, 2025
Under Trump, Paramount’s Merger Deal Must Include a “Bias Monitor”
The company also had to agree to ditch its DEI programs.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/under-trump-paramounts-merger-deal-must-include-a-bias-monitor/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=slack&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=3513ca18-9af5-4dcc-9616-20533ac7ac98&utm_campaign=Hootsuite


On Thursday, the head of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, approved the $8 billion merger between Skydance Media and Paramount, a deal that would allocate more than a billion dollars towards the latter company’s staggering debt.

But the agreement came with one major caveat: The media company must appoint a “bias monitor.”

According to reporting from The Wrap, an FCC “ombudsman” would work directly with New Paramount’s president, Jeff Shell, to review “any complaints of bias or other concerns” regarding CBS News, a subsidiary under Paramount.

Paramount also agreed to eliminate its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, including scrapping all DEI messaging from its internal training programs and removing DEI objectives in its compensation plans.

This move comes after the company announced the cancellation of The Late Show only a few days after the eponymous host critiqued the network’s recent settlement with the president. .................

[Timewas]

1. Greedy assholes

Openly bribing

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2. Straight out of Nazi germany

And they actually agreed to it.

[sop]

3. State-run media

[MrWowWow]

4. Will Colbert Get Another Show?

Seems like he still has another 5 to 10 good years left in his career. Fascism wins otherwise

[Botany]

5. The network of Cronkite, Murrow, Eric Sevareid, Rather, Bill Moyers, Mike Wallace, Charles Karult, Ed Bradley,

the 60 minutes crew, Connie Chung, and so many more real journalists along with writers and researchers is now dead just like our democracy died in November of 2024. This moment in fascism is brought to you by the SCOTUS, bush v Gore, citizens united, and shits like Musk, Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society,
and the fossil fuel industries.

[love_katz]

6. Plus a gazillion.

There's better ways of doing things. Those of us who lived through that era remember that.

[Botany]

7. A big part of "on how they did this". Start with this first article and read all 5 or 6

Musk when he was all high on vitamin K on Joe Rogan’s show bragged he had a special app that
let him see the voting results early.

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the

This no conspiracy junk but the facts … Google Star link DTC, Eaton and Tripp Lite,
and Eaton and Palantir.