The company's surrender to Trump's extortion vindicates his strategy of using frivolous litigation and his presidential powers to punish constitutionally protected speech.
In a legal filing this week, Trump argued that routine edits to a CBS News interview he did not participate in caused him "confusion and mental anguish."
The president has launched a multifaceted crusade against speech that offends him.
The president's portrayal of journalism he does not like as consumer fraud is legally frivolous and blatantly unconstitutional.
The full transcript shows the president's complaints about the editing of the interview are not just wildly hyperbolic and legally groundless. They are demonstrably false.
Donald Trump's complaints were always meritless, but CBS' capitulation sets a dangerous precedent for the future of the news media.
Brendan Carr has a clear record of threatening to suppress constitutionally protected speech.
The company is worried that the president's complaints about a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris could block a pending merger.
The host of This Week repeatedly and inaccurately asserted that Trump had been "found liable for rape."
What comes next will be more fragmented, more decentralized, and more authentic than the old legacy networks.
"Reining in Big Tech," Brendan Carr says, requires scrapping liability protections and restricting moderation decisions.
The decades-old regulation imposes burdens that no other media outlets are subject to.
The Republican presidential candidate argues that CBS and The Washington Post broke the law by covering the election in ways he did not like.
Despite his cluelessness, the former president's inclination to punish constitutionally protected speech reflects his authoritarian disregard for civil liberties.
Trump's greatest enemy on Tuesday wasn't ABC. It was himself.
Former NPR and Slate fixture Mike Pesca discusses media meltdowns, objectivity vs. moral clarity, and whether we are better or worse off now that media gatekeepers have less influence.
The former RNC chair's concession that Biden won "fair and square" did not save her from internal outrage at her support for Trump's stolen-election fantasy.
They should keep in mind that Jen Psaki exists.
Changing phrases to be for or against Israel is part of the job.
How cable TV transformed politics—and how politics transformed cable TV
NPR is no Xinhua, but Elon Musk is correct that it doesn't need government subsidies.
Major Fox talk show hosts knew that Trump's claims of a stolen election were false, but chose not to say so on air, for fear it would anger their audience.
On Tuesday night, Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington made the baffling claim that, if mainstream news channels failed to air the former president's campaign announcement in full, it would mean that "we do not have the First Amendment."
Advertisers found that appeasing an illiberal mob wasn’t a safe choice after all.
Plus: Israel boycott bill divides Democrats, Cyntoia Brown gets clemency, and the "skills gap" was a lie.
Ajit Pai notes that his agency has no authority to consider journalistic content in making license decisions.
The TV newsman looks back on his career at 20/20 and Fox News, and talks about the future of video.
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