Jon Stewart is publicly torching the CBS Paramount Global Matrix and its Shari Redstone’s control shareholder, accusing them of capitulating the political pressure of President Donald Trump in order to advance a merger of $ 8 billion with Skydance Media.
Stewart, the protagonist of “The Daily Show” by Comedy Central, which is a global paramount subsidiary, said that the media climate has deteriorated to the point that “they all have to pay tribute to the king”, similar to recent corporate payments and purges from the news room to the Mafia extortion.
“They only put money in the pot because we hope you don’t get [targeted]”Stewart said to” The Bill Simmons podcast “on Friday.
“They pay, what does Michael remind you? Protection.
His comments occur as Redstone, which personally wins about $ 2 billion if the Skydance Agreement passed, supported the post of CBS News General Director Wendy McMahon, said that the sources of movement told the post -signal progress in mediation conversations aimed at resolving the slander demand of Trump $ 20 billion against Paramount.
Demand claims that CBS deceptively edited an “60 -minute” interview with the candidate for his presidency, Kamala Harris, during the 2024 election cycle.
Stewart dismissed demand as a pretext for extracting financial concessions.
“Undoubtedly does not risk in the level of diffusion, slander or anything they think they are making a demand of $ 20 billion. It was a purely subjective editorial decision,” he said.
“Ultimately, what a horrible precedent for these media companies have established.”
It was said that McMahon was expelled after resisting efforts to set up with Trump, which the privileged contributed to the resignation of the veteran “60 -minute” producer, Bill Owens.
In his renunciation note, McMahon wrote: “It is clear that the company and I do not agree on the way to forward.”
CBS CEO George Cheeks told the staff that he would stay for several weeks to help the transition.
Stewart was not subtle in his involvement that Redstone was behind the movements, which suggests that they were told that CBS executives would apologize as part of the fusion strategy.
“Imagine -you pay $ 50 million for f -Rek nothing just to get someone to approve a fusion. It’s bribe,” he said.
“They have to apologize. And these people looked at it and thought,” There is no way to do -Apologies for doing my job in the way that is supposed to be done only because this guy is offended by it. “”
Sources told The Post that Skydance Executive Jeff Shell had little confidence in McMahon’s ability to lead CBS News.
His output followed multiple controversies, including evaluations, the moral of poor newspapers, and the reaction to interference perceived in editorial decisions, such as suppressing the anchor Tony Dokoupil for a hard interview with the author Ta-PEHISIS COATES in the tensions of Israel-Hamas.
“I mean, look at what they do now in the ’60 minutes,” and CBS News and everything else, “Stewart said.
“I don’t know if these institutions thought they would last my life will survive this. It’s crazy.”
The host of the “Daily Show” expanded his criticism to include other media titans.
“ABC had to pay $ 15 million. [Amazon founder Jeff] Bezos had to pay $ 40 million for a documentary on Melania. [Meta CEO Mark] Zuckerberg had to pay, “Stewart said, arguing that these were examples of the companies that tilted to Trump to avoid legal threats.
He warned that the Redstone approach establishes a dangerous precedent that Trump will explode more.
“Now it will go after Harvard and Comcast or anything he does. Because a policy of consequence always leads to more conquest. It is tragic,” Stewart said.
The publication has sought comments from Paramount Global, Meta, Bezos and ABC News.
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