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Trump-CBS lawsuit settlement was ‘right decision’, says former Paramount chair Shari Redstone
By Harshita Mary Varghese and Dawn Chmielewski
December 4, 202510:10 AM PSTUpdated December 4, 2025
Dec 3 (Reuters) – Media mogul Shari Redstone said on Wednesday that Paramount (PSKY.O), opens new tab made the “right decision” by agreeing to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit filed by U.S. President Donald Trump against CBS over a “60 Minutes” interview.
Speaking at the Reuters NEXT summit in New York City, the former Paramount chair said she was not part of the actual decision-making and recused herself from the board due to the “appearance of conflict which we really believe existed.”
The lawsuit against CBS alleged that the network deceptively edited an interview that aired on its “60 Minutes” news program with former Vice President Kamala Harris in an effort to “tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party” in the election.
The deal drew criticism that Paramount had effectively bought regulatory approval for its $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media, which received the Federal Communications Commission’s green light shortly afterwards.
Redstone parted ways with Paramount when the company completed its merger, ending her family’s decades-long controlling stake in the media firm. She made her first move since Paramount by investing in and becoming chair of Israeli studio Sipur.
Media consolidation is fundamentally reshaping the entertainment industry. It is reducing the number of independent studios and creating larger integrated companies positioned to dominate both theatrical and streaming distribution as they compete with more well-financed big tech companies.
Recently, Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O), opens new tab has put itself up for sale and is currently accepting bids from at least three major players: Paramount Skydance, Netflix (NFLX.O), opens new tab and Comcast (CMCSA.O), opens new tab.
Redstone said the media industry will continue to see consolidation, adding that she does not know who will ultimately end up with Warner Bros Discovery.
The consolidation trend has raised concerns among analysts about its impact on theatrical exhibition, as the global box office struggles to return to pre-pandemic levels while competing with entrenched streaming habits that have changed how audiences consume content.
According to Comscore, the domestic box-office collected $7.8 billion so far this year, compared with $11 billion grossed in 2019.
“It’s more about streaming, the quality of home theaters, and changing consumer habits,” Redstone said, adding that audiences are gravitating only toward blockbuster titles at theaters.
The year-to-date gains for domestic box office this year compared to 2024 stand at a razor thin 1%, said Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore’s head of marketplace trends.
“The industry will need to bank another $1.2 billion through December 31 to hit the $9 billion threshold for annual domestic box office,” Dergarabedian said.
Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur, Anil D’Silva and Maju Samuel
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Editor: The final paragraphs of Turley’s diatribe!
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The objections to Dokoupil are particularly revealing. Past CBS hosts and anchors have destroyed the network’s standing with many viewers, particularly those in the middle or right of the political spectrum. The decline was summed up when 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl literally laughed on air in the face of President Donald Trump, after he said that Biden was implicated in the influence-peddling scandal involving his son, Hunter. It was not the smug delivery but Stahl categorically denying that Biden was facing a scandal and showing absolutely little interest in the documented millions of dollars that went to the Biden family.
CBS increasingly seemed to be reporting to a shrinking audience composed of themselves, other establishment media, and the far left. The result was a network that was underperforming and little-watched.
The owners and shareholders welcomed a new direction, but many in the staff want a return to the same disastrous path. It is reminiscent of the response of staff at the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos bringing in new editors to reverse the decline of the newspaper.
Post owner Jeff Bezos brought in Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis, who promptly delivered a truth bomb in the middle of the newsroom by telling the staff, “Let’s not sugarcoat it…We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right? I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.”
The response called for Lewis and other editors to be canned. Again, these reporters would rather give up their very jobs than their bias.
The attacks on Dokoupil’s race, gender, and sexual orientation captured the unhinged and hypocritical character of these critics. They are triggered by any mention of race or gender by others, but regularly move to cancel others using the same identity criteria. It does not matter that Dokoupil has a long journalistic career or that a major change is badly needed if the network is to reverse these trending numbers. His actual talents appear immaterial to the consideration of his race, gender, and sexual orientation.
Editor: Here are the final paragraph of Turler’s adoration of Weiss & Dokoupil!
For those of us who once worked at the network, we are rooting for Weiss and Dokoupil in turning this ship around. CBS has been one of the truly great news organizations. It can be again.
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Louis Nizer, Lawyer to the Famous, Dies at 92
By Eric Pace
Nov. 11, 1994
Louis Nizer, the shrewd and voluble trial lawyer who made a long career of representing famous people in famous cases and whose autobiography, “My Life in Court,” was a best seller, died yesterday at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 92 and lived in midtown Manhattan.
The cause was kidney failure, said Perry Galler, the managing partner in the New York-based law firm Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon, of which Mr. Nizer was the senior partner.
Mr. Nizer founded the firm with Louis Phillips, and colleagues said yesterday that he remained active, going in to his office almost every day, until 10 days before he died.
Mr. Nizer’s wavy hair and near-classic profile adorned countless courthouses, board rooms and corridors of power as he talked his way to fame and fortune. In the course of his work as a trial lawyer, he made himself an authority on contract, copyright, libel, divorce, plagiarism and antitrust law, and on other kinds of law involving the entertainment world.
Louis Nizer, the shrewd and voluble trial lawyer who made a long career of representing famous people in famous cases and whose autobiography, “My Life in Court,” was a best seller, died yesterday at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 92 and lived in midtown Manhattan.
The cause was kidney failure, said Perry Galler, the managing partner in the New York-based law firm Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon, of which Mr. Nizer was the senior partner.
Mr. Nizer founded the firm with Louis Phillips, and colleagues said yesterday that he remained active, going in to his office almost every day, until 10 days before he died.
Mr. Nizer’s wavy hair and near-classic profile adorned countless courthouses, board rooms and corridors of power as he talked his way to fame and fortune. In the course of his work as a trial lawyer, he made himself an authority on contract, copyright, libel, divorce, plagiarism and antitrust law, and on other kinds of law involving the entertainment world.
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