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here's today's post: "CBS can pretty much fuck all the way off" — so can their parent company Paramount.
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CBS can pretty much fuck all the way off
so can their parent company Paramount
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July 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Jeff Tiedrich eviscerates CBS/Paramount:

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/cbs-can-pretty-much-fuck-all-the?publication_id=1162742&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=jxz1&utm_medium=email
CBS has canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. here's why. Paramount [CBS' parent company] has been trying to complete a merger with the company Skydance, owned by Trump pal Larry Ellison's son, which still must be officially approved by the FCC, aka Project 2025 creepo / Tsar of Making All Media Be Nice To Trump, Brendan Carr. Paramount has been pulling out all the stops on their Bow Down To Fascism Tour, to make sure that this deal goes through. first they bribed Donny with $16 million to settle the lawsuit he filed after 60 Minutes hurt his fee-fees. and now, they've forced CBS' hand. the Mad King has a grudge-shaped bug up his ass about the Late Show, because Colbert's been using it to mock Donny for years. the horror. here's the bullshit cover story CBS is trying to foist on us: that they retired Colbert for "financial reasons." merger? what merger? this isn't about any merger. it's just too hard to produce a late night show. it's so expensive. boo hoo hoo, poor pitiful us. oh fucking please, CBS, don't insult our intelligence. The Late Show was the highest-rated late-night talk show for nine consecutive seasons as of 2025, with a steadily-growing audience, in fact, it was CBS's only show to attract more viewers than the previous quarter. And it was nominated for another Emmy last week! claiming Colbert was canceled for "financial" reasons is like dragging your kids' favorite puppy out back to the gravel pit and saying it's for "good parenting" reasons.
July 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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jefftiedrich.bsky.social
from today's post, on the cowardice on display by CBS and Paramount on their cancelling of Stephen Colbert.
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4eWWr8O
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
Paramount has been pulling out all the stops on their Bow Down To Fascism Tour, to make sure that this deal goes through. first they bribed Donny with $16 million to settle the lawsuit he filed after 60 Minutes hurt his fee-fees. and now, they’ve forced CBS’ hand. the Mad King has a grudge-shaped bug up his ass about the Late Show, because Colbert’s been using it to mock Donny for years. the horror. here’s the bullshit cover story CBS is trying to foist on us: that they retired Colbert for “financial reasons.” merger? what merger? this isn’t about any merger. it’s just too hard to produce a late night show. it’s so expensive. boo hoo hoo, poor pitiful us. oh fucking please, CBS, don’t insult our intelligence. "The Late Show was the highest-rated late-night talk show for nine consecutive seasons as of 2025, with a steadily-growing audience, in fact, it was CBS’s only show to attract more viewers than the previous quarter. And it was nominated for another Emmy last week!" claiming Colbert was canceled for “financial” reasons is like dragging your kids’ favorite puppy out back to the gravel pit and saying it’s for “good parenting” reasons. CBS and Paramount are being cowards — and we don’t need any cowards right now. we’re all stocked up with cowards. we’ve got cowards up the yin-yang. heroes, that’s what we’re in desperate need of. no one ever went to bed with fascism and came up smelling like roses. no one ever said gee, I’m so glad that faceless corporation partnered with Nazis. fascist regimes come, and fascist regimes go. when this current nightmare finally runs its course, no one is going to say ‘wasn’t it awesome how Paramount slobbered all over Dear Leader’s ass?’ the people we’re going to look back on with admiration are the ones who stood up said ‘take your Nazi bullshit and stick it where the sun don’t shine.’
July 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM