US media are submitting to Trump

by Andrea
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ΗΠΑ: Τι κρύβεται πίσω από τους δασμούς Τραμπ προς τη Βραζιλία

Freedom of speech, press and information is protected by the first article of the American Constitution. However, during his second term, freedom of speech and media is suspended, as he encounters the dozens of lawsuits against them by the President.

Steven Colbert’s “Sacrifice”

On July 2, Paramount, the parent company on the CBS network, came to a compromise with Trump, paying $ 16 million in order for the president to withdraw his lawsuit against the historic “60 Minutes”.

Through his large group of lawyers, Trump claimed that during the 2024 election campaign the show hurt him because he did not objectively cover his opponent’s campaign, Kamala Harris. On July 18, because he published a report that Trump had sent to Jeffreya businessman convicted of pedophilia, who was found dead in prison in August 2019, a birthday card with the sketch of a naked woman.

A day earlier, on July 17, Steven Colbert, a famous presenter of the satirical show “The Late Show”, a cruel critic of Trump, announced live to the public that the CBS would “cut” its broadcast in May 2026 as part of the cuts.

A week later, on July 24, the Federal Communications Committee (FCC), whose members are appointed by their president, approved the merger of $ 8 billion between Paramount and Skydance Media, which was prepared for a year. Skydance Media belongs to David Elison, a former chief executive of Oracle Technological Colossus, who is a friend of Trump.

CBS insists that the acquisition of Paramount by Skydance Media has nothing to do with the compromise of “60 Minutes” or the abolition of “The Late Show”. However, given the time, these claims are difficult to believe.

Just last Tuesday, Trump announced that the “Wall Street Journal” owned by Rupert Murdoch, who is also owner of Fox News, a favorite network of the president, wishes to compromise her $ 10 billion in a $ 10 billion -in -law. of Trump to Estain.

Trump seems to have achieved the submission of almost all the major US informative networks criticizing him, winning the “battle against fake news” as he describes them. Already before his election last November, newspapers of prestige such as the “Washington Post” owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, And “Los Angeles Times”, owned by Patrick Sun Sun Suns, billionally in the field of biotechnology, They prevented the publication of main articles expressing their support in Harris.

Last December, the ABC television network paid the president of $ 15 million to settle Trump’s defamation against journalist George Stefanopoulos because he had referred to a court ruling by Trump guilty of rape.

Over time, US presidents have been trying to put pressure on television networks. During the crisis of American hostages in Iran in 1979, then US president, Democratic Jimmy Carterattempted to persuade the famous CBS journalist and presenter Walter Kroncate stop closing every evening newsletter referring to the number of days held hostage Americans in Tehran.

The Republican President Richard Nixon He tried to prevent television networks from relaying the investigation of the Watergate scandal, which was revealed by the “Washington Post”. Neither Carter nor Nixon managed to impose their will. Large networks continued to cover both Watergate, which resigned from the presidency in 1974 and the issue of American hostages in Iran.

In Trump’s time, however, the US government has created a strong climate of fear, which is often the threat, which is often implemented by the imposition of important retaliation on anyone who disagrees with it.

According to ‘New York Times’, “US media powerful people prefer to cut millions of dollars to eliminate political problems, rather than investing the same amounts of money to maintain an evening show in the air.” A CBS source reported that the “The Late Show” noted last year’s $ 40 million. But the media gain prestige and credibility through news broadcasts such as the “60 Minutes” and political satire such as “The Late Show”.

Due to these developments, in the many media pension rooms blows. There are many American journalists who wonder if the media should continue to fight for their independence, or succumb to the unbearable government pressure.

The journalists themselves have no answer to how the public will react if the media choose to “compromise”. Rebecca Tasnett, a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Harvard University Law School, told CNN that the SME submission to political power is one of the first indications of a state who is heading for authoritarianism.

And universities in target

Tasnet’s bitterness is justified: this week it has become known that Harvard is preparing to come to terms with the government and pay $ 500 million to end his litigation with the White House, who accuses the University of anti -Semitism.

If verified, the amount will be twice that of what he agreed to pay, on July 24, by Columbia University ($ 200 million) to settle a similar dispute with the Trump government.

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