{"id":679031,"date":"2025-07-08T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jon-stewart-questions-the-reason-behind-paramounts-shameful-settlement-with-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T05:22:00","slug":"jon-stewart-questions-the-reason-behind-paramounts-shameful-settlement-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jon-stewart-questions-the-reason-behind-paramounts-shameful-settlement-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Questions the Reason Behind Paramount\u2019s \u201cShameful Settlement\u201d With Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tJon Stewart may not have been able to give his full thoughts on Paramount\u2019s \u201cshameful settlement\u201d with President Donald Trump over Kamala Harris\u2019 60 Minutes<\/em> interview, but that didn\u2019t stop him from asking some telling questions to Steve Kroft, a former 60 Minutes<\/em> correspondent.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen The Daily Show<\/em> host kicked off Monday\u2019s episode of the Comedy Central program (which is owned by Paramount Global) with his commentary on the lawsuit settlement, he was quickly cut off by a graphic that read, \u201cPlease stand by. Brought to you by Arby\u2019s for when you want a sandwich commensurate with your company\u2019s shame.\u201d The camera eventually cut back to him, concluding, \u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s so wrong,\u201d before he seemingly realized he was cut off (though the whole bit was obviously planned).<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this month, Paramount Global agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit from Trump, who sued over the editing of an October interview that\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0conducted with Harris. Under the deal, Paramount will not apologize as part of the settlement, but has agreed to release\u00a060 Minutes\u00a0<\/em>transcript<\/a>s of interviews with presidential candidates after they\u2019ve aired, according to a statement from the company.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter<\/em> previously reported that CBS News<\/a> employees were left angry about the settlement, but relieved about the lack of apology. Stewart later asked Kroft about what he heard internally at 60 Minutes, as the host assumed he was still on some \u201ctext chains\u201d with current employees and that the settlement is likely \u201cdevastating to the people who work in a place that prides themselves on contextual good journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDevastating is a good word,\u201d Kroft replied. \u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of fear over there. Fear of losing their job, fear of what\u2019s happening to the country, fear of losing the First Amendment, all of those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Kroft gave some context surrounding the reason Trump sued in the first place \u2014 which was due to the way 60 Minutes<\/em> edited Harris\u2019 interview and showed different parts of it on separate shows across the network \u2014 Stewart pulled up an example of Fox News<\/em> giving an interview with Trump a similar edit.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI would like to know why the 60 Minutes<\/em> edit was worthy of a $16 million acquiescence of what is considered the Tiffany News gold standard network for Paramount of news, where very clearly Fox<\/em> [News<\/em>] just did what seems to me to be a more egregious edit?\u201d the host asked.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for Kroft\u2019s perspective: \u201cIt was a shakedown. That\u2019s what I call it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSources previously told THR<\/em> that Paramount believes the lawsuit posed a threat to Skydance\u2019s deal to acquire the company, which requires regulatory approval, including the transfer of FCC licenses. FCC chairman Brendan Carr (who was nominated by Trump) has said that the\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0interview would come up in the Commission\u2019s review of the merger. The FCC has\u00a0since requested\u00a0the full transcript and unedited footage of the interview.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWas this settlement just a payment so that this [Paramount-Skydance] merger can go through and not be challenged by Trump\u2019s FCC?\u201d Stewarts asked Kroft, who responded, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSo the implication is you don\u2019t get your $8 billion merger, you don\u2019t get your $2 billion payout [for Shari Redstone, Paramount Global chairwoman and controlling shareholder] unless you give me [Trump] a tremendous amount of money,\u201d Stewart added. \u201cNow that strikes me as \u2014 and I\u2019m obviously not a lawyer, but I did watch Goodfellas<\/em> \u2014 that sounds illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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