To the editor: Isn’t anyone going to face as much as this bully (“Paramount inches towards settling Trump’s $20-billion ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit,” April 29)? Punishment goes to networks that air journalistically accountable items that President Trump doesn’t like; legislation corporations which have, up to now, represented purchasers he disagrees with; universities eager to proceed life-saving analysis however have the audacity to rent extremely certified minorities and immigrants; the listing goes on and on.
Any individual must face down this tyrant. If Paramount refuses to settle, it might lose its merger due to a vindictive president, however even Shari Redstone, the non-executive chair of Paramount, must concede that operating a media firm in a democracy can be higher than underneath totalitarian rule.
Richard Shafarman, Santa Clarita
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To the editor: The spectacle of CBS Information crawling to Trump over a very frivolous lawsuit over its enhancing of a Kamala Harris interview is nothing wanting revolting. Simply so Redstone can promote the corporate to the Ellison household for billions of {dollars} she doesn’t want, she’s trashing the journalistic integrity of one of the vital revered information organizations in broadcasting historical past and opening a authorized precedent that may influence all journalism nationwide.
Is that this the CBS Information that thrilled the nation with Edward R. Murrow’s “That is London” broadcasts in 1940? Is that this the CBS Information that carried Walter Cronkite’s factual broadcast from Vietnam after the catastrophe of the Tet Offensive?
No, that is the CBS Information that’s being bought to the best bidder and destroying itself within the course of.
Mara Casey, Laguna Niguel
