During a manic week, Donald Trump launched a trade war that tore up U.S. foreign policy and deceived government agencies, and the president also found time to require television networks to lose their licenses due to so-called media bias.
Trump accuses CBS and its 60 minutes News show “The biggest broadcast scandal in history!!!” Because he claims to be an interview with deceptive editor Kamala Harris, who was his in November Democratic opponent defeated in the general election. CBS and its attorneys say the lawsuit is omnipotent.
Trump has posted the media over the years, marking it as “the enemy of the people” and “fake news.” But now he is taking action – using litigation and regulatory threats to attack the finances and their operational capabilities of key news organizations.
CBS faces a lawsuit against Trump that legal experts find unfounded — triggering an internal uprising of its journalists, or a staunch opposition to a tendency to use the administration’s previous weeks to prove his power.
Washington lobbyists say the Trump administration will use regulations to get what they want from the media, including more favorable coverage, as many groups try to reach new deals and seek mergers.
Trump’s criticism of CBS is because its parent company Paramount Global is working to end its $8 billion sale to independent film studio Skydance.
Paramount owner Shari Redstone opens 60 minutesOne person familiar with her thoughts said: “Thoughts related to the Trump administration have angered many people, but are not involved in the settlement discussion yet.
Brendan Carr, who Trump chose to serve as FCC chairman, said 60 minutes The interview will be part of his review of the merger with Paramount, and this week, CBS handed over a Harris segment report card.
The CBS settlement will be further signs that the country’s largest media and technology companies are seeking to keep the situation on the right side of the president.
ABC News said in December that it would provide $15 million to Trump’s future presidential foundation to resolve defamation lawsuits against the Internet, demanding its George Stephanopoulos (one of its star hosts). ) Leave a comment.
As ratings drop and ratings drop, these moves make the financial foundation of traditional news networks more vulnerable. Meanwhile, Trump is seeking to enhance the conservative media tilt, including launching TV networks and podcasts.
Martin Kalb, professor emeritus of Harvard Kennedy School, said: “Trump has successfully weakened the power of established traditional press. He is now working with new media to make his self and his political status demands.” Legality and centrality.”
As some newsrooms have confidence in their support for their owners, reporters quietly expressed concern that they would not be responsible for independent government reports.
CNN reporter Jim Acosta announced last month that he would leave after his morning show was moved to midnight, many people seen by many as trying toward Trump Trump played for the news reporter.
“Don’t succumb to fear. Stick to the truth. Stick to hope,” Acosta said. “For President Trump and his allies, you might think you’ve silenced me. But guess again.”
It’s not just a media that censors the media. Last month, Meta agreed to pay $25 million to resolve Trump’s lawsuit suspending it from Facebook and Instagram following the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
Media analyst Claire Enders said Trump “submitted to the entire United States of America. . . There was no secret report on any media that his planned vendetta was adversely affected by him and his policies.”
“ABC News will pay in 2024, [possible payments by] CBS News now shows that U.S. companies are fearful of the president and his agenda’s power. ”
A lobbyist with a link to the new administration believes that the White House no longer believes the need to attract traditional media, but can rely on podcasts and social influencers to engage their core audiences with Elon Musk’s X’s support.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said last month that she will open a briefing room for “independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers and content creators” and provide new media in the first line A dedicated seat.
Another famous lobbyist said that the placement and preference of the press would be used strategically, threatening to ban attendees from being trapped by the sins of their newspapers or media groups.
The Department of Defense has told The New York Times that NBC News, NPR and Politico they need to give up office space in the Pentagon to get conservative media such as Breitbart News and U.S. News.
This week, Trump attacked Axel Springer’s politician, allegedly received funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which media companies noted was paid subscriptions.
Right-wing commentators and Musk quickly took over the attack. Leavitt said she could confirm that more than $8 million in taxpayer funds have basically subsidized Politico for a dime to U.S. taxpayers and will not happen again.”
“Some online voices are intentionally spreading falsehoods,” Politico CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and editor-in-chief John Harris said in a note to readers, noting that government agencies are just subscribers to their journalism.
Axios cited an internal email, citing an internal email that the White House directed the General Services Administration, which manages federal property, to terminate “every media contract.” Listed contracts for Politico, Bloomberg, the Financial Times and others.
Rather than viewing the attack as a threat to their finances, many media executives warn of the impact on media groups that rely on the U.S. government-backed.
Carr opposes “Taxpayer money transfers to NPR and PBS in light of changes in the media market”, while Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, chairman of the President’s Government Efficiency Committee, calls on NPR and PBS Leaders – both part of the federal government. Funded Public Broadcasting Corporation – Testify at a hearing on media bias.
But it is the USDA’s funding cuts that have led to the most direct crisis in media around the world, relying on the support of the U.S. government in often dangerous situations.
Trump posted on his truth social networking site Wednesday, saying: “It looks like billions have been announced by the US Agency for International Development and other agencies, most of which have used fake news media as ” return” to create a good story about the Democratic Party.
Paul Radu, co-founder of the Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project, a global network of investigative journalists that faces a quarter of the budget, said: “We are worried that journalists working around the world are at great risk. For those There will be a lot of harm in people who tell us the truth at their own risk.”
