Fascinating information this afternoon that CBS and its father or mother firm Paramount are contemplating settling a lawsuit Trump filed in opposition to them late final yr alleging “election interference” and demanding $10 billion in damages. We all know there’s been lots of this of late. ABC settled an extremely weak case Trump introduced over George Stephanopoulos’s appropriate use of the phrase “rape” to explain what a jury in New York concluded Trump had achieved to E. Jean Carroll. However there’s weak and there’s weak. The go well with in opposition to CBS isn’t weak. It’s absurd. There’s no tort of enhancing. However Paramount is contemplating settling and customarily going full Oprah money & prizes for Donald Trump. This WSJ article which broke the information tells us what the problem is: CBS has a merger its making an attempt to get accredited. And the Trump staff, together with the incoming FCC chair Brendan Carr (who has brazenly promised to abuse his energy beginning on day one) have made it clear that firms have to present Trump money and prizes in the event that they don’t need bother.

CBS and Paramount have gotten the message.

Folks toss out jargon about ‘obeying upfront’. However there’s a a lot speedy concern right here. CBS nonetheless has a information division, I believe. In the event that they’re making clear they’re this determined to present Trump money and prizes, significantly with their information division, everybody ought to be on discover that they’re going to be searching for alternatives to stay it to Democrats as a approach to grease the skids for his or her merger deal. They’re primarily saying it out loud. There’s no different approach to interpret this.

I don’t know if Democrats ought to boycott CBS. However any Democrat occurring CBS ought to be certain to say on air that CBS Information has determined to curry favor with Trump and Carr on the merger deal.