To the editor: Isn’t anyone going to face as much as this bully (“Paramount inches toward 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 companies which have, up to now, represented purchasers he disagrees with; universities desirous to proceed life-saving analysis however have the audacity to rent extremely certified minorities and immigrants; the record goes on and on.
Any individual must face down this tyrant. If Paramount refuses to settle, it could lose its merger due to a vindictive president, however even Shari Redstone, the non-executive chair of Paramount, must concede that working 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 completely frivolous lawsuit over its enhancing of a Kamala Harris interview is nothing in need of 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 probably the most revered information organizations in broadcasting historical past and opening a authorized precedent that may impression 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 offered to the best bidder and destroying itself within the course of.
Mara Casey, Laguna Niguel
