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2 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

It's a sign that the people running Paramount don't have any balls or scruples. And we shouldn't be surprise if their business suffers for it in the long run. (see: law firms who settled with Trump vs. those who didn't)

It seems like every decision they make is under a sword of damoclese because they have a merger pending that needs federal approval.   Which is an abuse of power by trump obvs but theyre also submitting in advance

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5 minutes ago, pfife said:

It seems like every decision they make is under a sword of damoclese because they have a merger pending that needs federal approval.   Which is an abuse of power by trump obvs but theyre also submitting in advance

This is exactly right. My only point is there is risk as well insofar that doing things like pushing out the highest rated late night host on television (for transparently obvious reasons), gutting 60 minutes, etc. harms the brand to the point where the pros might not be worth the cons.

Washington Post is a good example here - since October of last year, they are largely worse off as a brand and are getting their lunch money taken by the WSJ and the Times.

Personally, I think these entities would be better off telling him to go **** off, particularly since he's proven time and again that even if you deal with him, he'll always come back and ask for more.

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As far as Colbert goes, I am not worried about him, someone will hire him and get a foothold into his viewership. While CBS will be showing 30 minute timeshare ads after the 10:00 news lol

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13 hours ago, LaceyLou said:

I still don't get how people could be honestly ignorant of how much of a creep "The Donald" was and is. 

All the evangelical people think he’s Cyrus, so it’s OK. All the superwealthy people are getting rich off him, so they don’t care. All the incels think he’ll get them laid Handmaid’s Tale style, so they’re eager for that. The rest of the people who voted for him are those who didn’t follow closely enough and thought he was just another Republican. Those who are truly ignorant of even this probably don’t bother to vote. The rest voted against him.

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11 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Tbf to JV, Trump hasn't sounded that lucid in years so maybe I'll cut him some slack

The incident in question is from 2003, when Trump was presumably lucid.

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1 hour ago, romad1 said:

Why does it feel like Colbert being cancelled is like the Czar and their family being killed by the Bolsheviks?  Its confirmation that the system is no longer one where free speech is protected. 

It's the timing, I don't think it had anything to do with Trump.  All three networks made a play at late night after the Leno/Letterman era and yes Colbert arguably is the best rated now, but shares continue to slip due to the greater competition, plus now you compete with cable news who puts more effort into their late night shows, and cutting the cord.  

Plus Fallon is signed for multiple years still.  I probably would have guess Kimmel would be the one left out and he still may be as well.  

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17 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

It's the timing, I don't think it had anything to do with Trump.  All three networks made a play at late night after the Leno/Letterman era and yes Colbert arguably is the best rated now, but shares continue to slip due to the greater competition, plus now you compete with cable news who puts more effort into their late night shows, and cutting the cord.  

Plus Fallon is signed for multiple years still.  I probably would have guess Kimmel would be the one left out and he still may be as well.  

https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-tv-ratings-q2-2025/

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this guy is a US citizen and a veteran, but ICE saw a filthy brown guy and went full nazi

https://apnews.com/article/us-army-veteran-immigration-raid-53cb22251a01599a0c4d1a8d5650d050

George Retes, 25, who works as a security guard at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, said he was arriving at work on July 10 when several federal agents surrounded his car and — despite him identifying himself as a U.S. citizen — broke his window, peppered sprayed him and dragged him out.

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3 hours ago, mtutiger said:

As far as Colbert goes, I am not worried about him, someone will hire him and get a foothold into his viewership. While CBS will be showing 30 minute timeshare ads after the 10:00 news lol

He’ll probably end up on a streaming service.

CBS will show bad reruns of their “comedies” 

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2 hours ago, ewsieg said:

It's the timing, I don't think it had anything to do with Trump. 

In the larger context of Paramount's merger talks, I don't know how anyone can claim with a straight face and with 100% metaphysical certitude that their personnel decision has nothing to do with Trump.

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I told someone a few weeks ago that the reason the Epstein files will never be released is because Trump's name is so deeply ingrained that there's just no way to remove him without people catching onto the fact that the files have been altered.

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4 hours ago, ewsieg said:

It's the timing, I don't think it had anything to do with Trump. 

Trump holds grudges. He wants to punish CBS for the 60 Minutes interview with Harris.

Under a normal administration this wouldn’t be an issue. 

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These are the 2Q ratings for 2025.  200K viewers in the 18-49 age range is terrible.  

Did Paramount do some horse-trading and offer up Colbert?  Sure, it's the smart move.  But he was already on his deathbed.  All of those shows are.  

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19 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

A lot never paid attention to all the crap he pulled back with the casinos and bankrupting Trump Tower. If they knew him at all it was because of the Apprentice. Where they fixed up his dump of an office and made him seem bigger than life.

As PT Barnum once said "A sucker is born every minute" or something like that...

Or to quote Paul Simon...Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest

That is true... and as a coworker pointed out to me earlier, there are those who have spent the last 30 years watching Fox News, then OAN, and also Truth Social. 

(and I love that Paul Simon quote)

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30 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

That is true... and as a coworker pointed out to me earlier, there are those who have spent the last 30 years watching Fox News, then OAN, and also Truth Social. 

(and I love that Paul Simon quote)

Not to mention football and basketball coaches who doubled as history and civics teachers when they weren’t teaching Drivers Ed

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21 hours ago, LaceyLou said:

I still don't get how people could be honestly ignorant of how much of a creep "The Donald" was and is. 

It isn't that they don't know, it's that they don't care.  They, Trump, Fox News, whoever, have convinced them that a Mexican "illegal" picking strawberries is worse than Trump sexually molesting adolescent girls. There will be Trump crossed out in crayon with Biden written in on the Epstein files and the rubes will believe it.  

I was watching a Netflix doc on the Oklahoma City bombing and it was chilling to sort of see the beginning of this **** show. Of course it was originally blamed on Muslim terrorists.

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