The last scandal with presses shows how the plutocracy causes authoritarianism.
The last scandal with presses shows how the plutocracy causes authoritarianism.
So far the frame from the interview of Donald Trump with 60 minutes Leslie Stel correspondent on October 25, 2020.
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Since 2016, Bill Owns has ruled 60 minutes– He was only the third executive producer in CBS news history. When he appealed to his employee on Tuesday, he started his resignation, “The fact was that sixty minutes was my life.” This is not an exaggeration. Oouns is engaged in CBS News already 37 years old, most of them in 60 minutes. As it is typical of his growth, he sometimes reject his personal life towards his career.
In the Owns memo, I recalls: “My son was 6 months old, my wife was pregnant with my daughter, and my mother was in a coma when I spent 5 weeks on the Iraq battlefield. My 60 -minute priorities have always been clear. Maybe not reasonable but clear.”
At the speech of private work at the beginning of the letter, Owns expressed obviously that his departure was not an ordinary career: it was a ritual self -sacrifice designed to draw the attention of the authorities and ashamed so that they are not mistaken. Owns killed his career to make meaning.
Oouns considered it 60 minutes He abandoned the basic journalistic principles, pressing against Donald Trump. 60 minutes He was in the president’s weapons for months. Trump claims that interviews 60 minutes Last October, he was deceptively edited, and he took a lawsuit of $ 10 billion for losses made by the program. Usually, such an inappropriate claim will be rejected as a lawsuit. But the Paramount CBS seeks to reassure the president.
As The New York Times reports:
Paramount Control Summer, Redstone Balls, have seeks to ensure the securing The approval of the Trump administration for a multi-billion dollar sale of its Skydance company, run by the Billionaire Tech Larry Ellison. She expressed her desire to resolve Mr. Trump’s case …
Legal experts rejected this lawsuit as unreasonable and far -fetched. Many CBS News Journalists Walter Kronokite and Mike Wallez-Valta-Valta that the settlement will be Mr Trump’s surrender for what they believe that the standard edition of the editorial decision.
Trump has considerable force to punish CBS. Like cnn notes“Trump repeatedly urged the network to lose your license and Called on the Federal Commission for Communications to punish a television company. Ultimately 60 minutes transferred Full transcript and video challenged interview at FCC, and Trump and Paramaount this month agreed on the mediator in the trial. “
CNN continued to say that “Owance’s resignation gives Trump another Great Victory against the TV blower.” Question: Is it really a triumph for Trump or Pirian Victory? In the end, Owns clearly hopes that his victim will have a real influence and unite journalists to protect the integrity of his profession. While the Owance victim is morally exemplary, it is unclear whether it will work.
Oouns created resignation to embarrass their superiors and inspire journalists on 60 minutes and elsewhere. One CBS employee, speaking in anonymity, said CNN: “He sacrificed himself, hoping that it could make our corporate surfaces wake up and realize that they risk destroying what makes 60 minutes great.”
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In this case, the threat of journalistic independence comes from not only Trump. As The New York Times Reports: “Redstone complained to the CBS heads in January about 60 minutes of the war between Israel and Hamas, and a day later the company appointed producer of the CBS veteran Zirinsky to a new role that controls the journalistic standards of the news department.” This is another case where the desire to protect Israel from criticism crosses the authoritarianism of Trump, and how it is parallel to repressions on a dissent in the campus where there were administrators of the university and the Trump administration A working hand in a hand.
Both at universities and in the media, the existing economic inequality facilitates the performance of Trump’s autocratic aspirations. Universities lead to large donors that share many Trump’s political beliefs, and the same with media corporations. Even if the leaders of these institutions do not agree with Trump, their economic interests make them vulnerable to the hostile presidency. This explains why the billionaire owners Washington Post and Los -egeles Times signed newspapers’ approval Kamala Harris.
On Monday, Road light report What Media -Company Nexstar rejected the reporter Olafimihan Oshin from one of their publications, Hillto avoid the trial from Trump. Oshin wrote an article that unites other news sources with an actual mistake. The work stated that TRUE SOCIAL, Trump’s media, lost $ 73 million when she lost $ 30 million. Usually this type of error leads to correction rather than the trial. Source told Road light This Nexstar was “sought to avoid Trump’s anger” and “agreed to dismiss the reporter in exchange for the refusal of the case – which the Nexstar press -secretary, Gary Vaitman refused.”
These stories consist of a template: corporate media flex Trump’s knee. Unfortunately, Owns may have sacrificed his career in vain. We can hope that it ignites resistance in the editorial board, but it is also likely that the humility of corporate media owners will only intensify. If so, Americans will consult to turn off 60 minutes and other major outlets. Instead as I suggested earlierEveryone who hopes for honest views on Trump should turn to alternative media sources such as Democracy now!. Lever. Jobinand (of course) Nation.
Chaos and the cruelty of the Trump administration reach new lows each week.
Trump’s catastrophic “Liberation Day” was inflicted by the world economy and created another constitutional crisis at home. Civilian officers continue to abduct the university students from the streets. The so-called “opponents” fly abroad in a mega-tour against the ruling of the courts. And SignalGate promises to become the first of many incompetence scandals that expose violent violence at the heart of the American Empire.
At the time when elite universities, powerful law firms and influential media capitulate Trump intimidation, Nation more determined than if -no one earlier to contain a powerful account.
In the last month, we have published a report on how Trump raises his mass deportation program to other countries, exposed the administration’s appeal to the laws to comply with his repressive agenda, and strengthened the votes of brave activists aimed at universities.
We also continue to tell the stories of those who retreat against Trump and Musk, whether on the streets in the growth of protest movements, in the town halls across the country or in critical state elections – for example, a recent Wisconsin Supreme Court race – which gives a model of confrontation and prove that Musk cannot acquire our democracy.
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