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Skydance separately promised to appoint a CBS News ombudsman to 'promote transparency and increased accountability' at CBS News. Skydance CEO David Ellison also has met with center-right journalist Bari Weiss.
Paramount had this month agreed to pay $US16 million, destined for the Trump Presidential Library, to settle a lawsuit by president Trump who alleged the CBS News program 60 Minutes had edited an interview with presidential candidate Kamala Harris to make her look better.
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Mediaite on MSNSkydance and Paramount Just Taught Media Companies How to Kneel to PowerCBS and Paramount bent to Trump's demands—gutting DEI, firing Colbert, and offering ad deals—just to close a merger. It's a dangerous precedent for the media.