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		DFHippie 54 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence > Or maybe lately, Larry Ellison's take over of Paramount/CBS (but it feels more like he is buying a toy for his son). If it were just a toy for his son these things wouldn't have happened - Stephen Colbert canned - Bari Weiss hired to head the news division - $32 million settlement for an easily winnable lawsuit I've probably missed some. Ellison is a huge Trump supporter and is clearly reshaping CBS to at least go easy on Trump, if not to make it yet another right wing propaganda outlet.

mjd 53 days ago [–]

$32 million settlement for a lawsuit *they had already won*. They were supposedly “settling” with Trump so that he wouldn't refile it.

It was a straight-up bribe.

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