Daily Kos -How disappointed our Founding Fathers would be in the craven, fearful way America’s corporate media has surrendered to Donald Trump in the months since his election. How disappointed we should be, too. First ABC News made the baffling decision to settle a $15 million defamation lawsuit Trump filed against the network, outraging the company’s employees. Then Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg settled another baseless Trump lawsuit, this time handing the president a cool $25 million.
The latest domino fell on Thursday evening when Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, indicated it would settle yet another Trump defamation suit. That decision comes despite legal experts dismissing Trump’s suit as baseless and intended solely to intimidate. It’s working.
Corporate news outlets are abandoning the American people at the very moment we most need a free, fearless, and independent media. Most of those once venerable institutions are giving up without so much as a fight. What a loss for democracy. More
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