Source: Common Dreams
by Jeff Cohen
“When media critic A.J. Liebling wrote in The New Yorker 65 years ago that ‘freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one,’ he might have glimpsed a media system dangerously dominated by a small number of companies. But it’s unlikely he could have foreseen a president as authoritarian as Donald Trump, and media conglomerates eager to capitulate to him. Thanks to the Paramount conglomerate and its greed-fueled boss, Shari Redstone, the ‘Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ will vanish next year. After the Trump administration responds by approving the Paramount merger with Skydance, Redstone will be roughly $2 billion richer than she is today, and Paramount/CBS may become even more Trump-friendly.” (07/19/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/colbert-cancellation-trump