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The Media's Profits Trump Democracy, Once Again
The Media’s Profits Trump Democracy, Once AgainThe Nation by Victor Pickard
Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Donald Trump is a stunning display of bribery, greed, and cowardice. It’s also a symptom of deep structural rot in our media today—a system in which profit trumps democracy at every turn.
To review: last October, Trump sued Paramount, the parent company of CBS News. Trump alleged that the CBS program 60 Minutes deceptively edited an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris to “tip the scales in favor of the Democratic party” in the lead up to the presidential election. From the beginning, nearly all legal experts determined that the case was utterly meritless. Media organizations are, after all, protected by the First Amendment, and are both legally and ethically permitted to make routine edits of interviews they air.
Read more here: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/the-medias-profits-trump-democracy-once-again/