NPR | Sept. 12, 2025
CBS’ new corporate owner has taken a series of concrete steps to address the concerns of the news division’s sharpest critics — particularly President Trump and his allies.
In recent days, the network selected a new ombudsman for CBS News with strong conservative credentials. It promised to run full, unedited interviews on a key public affairs show after receiving blowback from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. And it’s in talks to bring on a top news executive who believes the mainstream press is reflexively biased.
All of these decisions have come from top officials at Paramount under the new ownership of Skydance Media. And they represent a grand accommodation to Trump by CBS, known for its rich legacy of journalistic touchstones spanning back to the dawn of television news, including Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and 60 Minutes.
Larry Ellison — the Oracle mega-billionaire who has donated millions to the IDF — just had his kid buy Paramount/CBS to have Bari Weiss run, is trying to buy CNN, and now will buy TikTok (with Andreessen Horowitz).
Lucky break for Israel as its support collapses in the US. pic.twitter.com/W3fFYHGKPK
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 17, 2025
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt told the Israeli Knesset earlier this year how important it was that they “capture” TikTok.
It has now been captured. pic.twitter.com/hbbyfQ6471 https://t.co/PyhilPOdSv
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) September 17, 2025
Meme of the day (ChatGPT) is GOLD!!!