Remember This Week—It’s the Week America Became a Different Place
It is certainly a story “only in America”, but I do not mean that in the normal and heroic sense. I mean in the scary sense, of business, it is all to benefit. CBS started life in 1927 as a radio network, developing on television as this medium grew up. There were entertainment and news divisions, and subsequent sports; Its news division was considered the best in the United States and, with the British Broadcasting Corporation, a model of traditional media standards in democracies. It was not “liberal” when Edward R. Murrow helped to shoot Joe McCarthy. He acted to defend democracy against a disaster and dishonest demagogue.
Over the decades – and it was a natural progression – CBS has become a huge society, developing in films, entertainment, even musical instruments (he would have ruined Fender guitars for about 20 years, although today these guitars – I have it – are considered vintage, go to understand). But even it was not so horrible, until the age of the megamengers caused by what was essentially the end of the antitrust application in the United States, fades: CBS formed Viacom, then they separated, then they remember. Paramount, which had owned part of CBS in the 1930s, returned to the image. In 2009, Paramount announced a partnership with this new thing called Skydance, which was created in 2006 by David Ellison.
In July 2024, Skydance and Paramount, now the parent of CBS, announced their intention to merge. You will remember what happened next. This fall, as the merger was under government examination and during the presidential campaign, 60 minutes Direct an interview with vice-president Kamala Harris. Without evidence, Donald Trump accused that he was published to make Harris well.
