Paramount Bends the Knee and Weakens a Nation

Paramount settlement in the ridiculous lawsuit against CBS News is a shameful bribe paid to Trump's extortion racket, and yet another indictment of the corporate media industry

Make no mistake. In its settlement with Trump, Paramount paid a shameful bribe to the president of the United States in order to grease the skids for a media deal that, and there really is no other way to put this, stinks to high heaven.

If it sounds like I take some of this personally, I do. I was a correspondent at CBS News in the early 2000’s with as…