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Late-night comedian Stephen Colbert has ended his 11-year run as host of The Late Show<\/em> on CBS<\/em>. His program\u2019s cancellation removes one of President Trump\u2019s most vocal critics from the airwaves and comes after the comedian criticized his own employer for agreeing to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Trump. The settlement came as CBS<\/em> parent company Paramount was seeking the Trump administration\u2019s approval for a merger with Skydance, which the Trump administration approved just one week after CBS<\/em> announced Colbert\u2019s ouster. Trump\u2019s FCC Chair Brendan Carr has openly gloated about the administration\u2019s attacks on critics in the media and the defunding of outlets like PBS<\/em> and NPR<\/em>, which no longer receive federal money. Meanwhile, Paramount Skydance is seeking another megamerger with Warner Bros. Discovery, which would further concentrate media control in the hands of the billionaire Ellison family that has a long history of supporting Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see this over and over again, where the Trump administration is weaponizing its power over mergers to try to get what it wants in the media space,\u201d says David Sirota, editor-in-chief of The Lever<\/em> and host of the Master Plan<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n

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AMY GOODMAN:<\/strong> This is Democracy Now!<\/em>, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report<\/em>. I\u2019m Amy Goodman in Denver. Juan Gonz\u00e1lez is in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Well, the late-night comedian Stephen Colbert signed off last night for the final time as host of The Late Show<\/em> on CBS<\/em>. Special guests on that final broadcast included Paul McCartney, who performed The Beatles\u2019 classic \u201cHello, Goodbye,\u201d with help from Colbert and Elvis Costello and Jon Batiste and others.<\/p>\n

Over the past 11 years, Stephen Colbert was one of the most vocal critics of President Trump on network TV. His show was canceled last July after he criticized CBS<\/em>\u2019s parent company Paramount for agreeing to pay $16 million to settle a $20 billion lawsuit brought by President Trump. The settlement came as Paramount was seeking the Trump FCC \u2014 that\u2019s the Federal Communications \u2014 approval for a merger with Skydance. This is part of what Colbert said at the time.<\/p>\n

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STEPHEN COLBERT:<\/strong> Now, I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It\u2019s \u201cbig fat bribe,\u201d because this all comes as Paramount\u2019s owners are trying to get the Trump administration to approve the sale of our network to a new owner, Skydance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

AMY GOODMAN:<\/strong> The Trump administration approved the Paramount-Skydance merger just a week after CBS<\/em> announced Colbert\u2019s ouster. At the time, CBS<\/em> [said] Colbert was canceled for, quote, \u201cfinancial reasons,\u201d even though Colbert had been consistently the top-rated late-night host.<\/p>\n

Last year, Trump wrote online, \u201cI absolutely love that Colbert got fired,\u201d unquote. Early this morning at 1:52 a.m. Eastern, President Trump posted a message online again, celebrating the end of Colbert\u2019s show, writing, quote, \u201cThank goodness he\u2019s finally gone!\u201d unquote.<\/p>\n

In March, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, celebrated the cancellation of Colbert\u2019s show as part of a broader Trump-led campaign against the news media. This is Carr speaking at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference.<\/p>\n

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BRENDAN CARR:<\/strong> President Trump took on the fake news media, and President Trump is winning. Look at the results so far: PBS<\/em> defunded, NPR <\/em>defunded, Joy Reid gone from MSNBC<\/em>, \u201cSleepy-Eyed\u201d Chuck Todd gone, Jim Acosta gone, John Dickerson gone. Colbert is leaving. CBS<\/em> is under new ownership. And soon enough, CNN<\/em> is going to have new ownership, as well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

AMY GOODMAN:<\/strong> Earlier this week, one of Stephen Colbert\u2019s final guests, Bruce Springsteen, directly criticized President Trump and the Ellison family, David and Larry Ellison, which now controls Paramount.<\/p>\n

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN:<\/strong> I\u2019m here in support tonight for Stephen, because you\u2019re the first guy in America who\u2019s lost his show because we got a president who can\u2019t take a joke, and because \u2014 because Larry and David Ellison feel they need the kiss his [bleep] to get what they want. So, these are \u2014 anyway, Stephen, these are small-minded people who got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

AMY GOODMAN:<\/strong> So, that was Bruce Springsteen this week, one of the final guests of Stephen Colbert.<\/p>\n

And right now the Ellisons, with Paramount Skydance, are trying to merge, in a more than $100 billion megamerger, with Warner Bros. Discovery. Warner Bros. Discovery owns HBO<\/em>, owns CNN<\/em>. And, of course, Paramount owns CBS<\/em>. So, CNN, CBS, HBO<\/em> would all be under the same roof.<\/p>\n

To talk more about the end of Stephen Colbert\u2019s show, Trump\u2019s threats to the press and media consolidation, we\u2019re joined here in Denver by David Sirota, founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever<\/em>. His recent book is titled Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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David, how does this fit into your view of corruption in the United States? How does the final show of Colbert, though the most-watched show on late night, being canceled and him being ousted, connect to these megamergers that are consolidating the media?<\/p>\n

DAVID SIROTA:<\/strong> Well, I think it\u2019s a data point in a number of data points. I mean, the Colbert tale that you just told, also there was a concurrent situation with Jimmy Kimmel and a merger about local TV stations, the Tegna-Nexstar merger. Jimmy Kimmel had said something that apparently Brendan Carr and the Trump administration and the MAGA movement didn\u2019t like after the death of \u2014 the murder of Charlie Kirk, and the television network faced pressure from Carr and others to essentially throw Jimmy Kimmel off the air.<\/p>\n

So, I think we see this over and over again, where the Trump administration is weaponizing its power over mergers to try to get what it wants in the media space. And I think that\u2019s a \u2014 I wouldn\u2019t call that a new level of corruption. We saw the Nixon administration, quite famously, back in the day, try to weaponize its merger approval process on behalf of its allies and its donors, as well. But it is a resurrected tactic from the Nixon era that is a kind of corruption that\u2019s outside of, frankly, the traditional kinds of corruption that we\u2019ve gotten used to. I mean, traditional corruption that we talk about in Master Plan<\/em> and we document in Master Plan<\/em> is about legalizing campaign contributions. This is actually weaponizing, as you mentioned, lawsuits where Trump is trying to extract money from various large corporations, using the merger approval process potentially as a tool to extract those settlements and extract financial remuneration to Donald Trump himself.<\/p>\n

And I think, ultimately, as it affects the media situation, it creates a chilling effect, right? I mean, everybody who is currently working in media, certainly for big corporations that may have business before the Trump administration, everybody knows that they, in what they\u2019re doing, whether it\u2019s reporting or commentary or anything else, that they may get crosswise with Donald Trump, and the corporate boss may not like that, because the corporate boss may have business with the Trump administration. So, I think beyond just a sort of heavy-handed censorship problem, you have a potential self-censorship problem. And I think that\u2019s actually, arguably, the point from the Trump administration and people like Brendan Carr, to send a chilling effect message to the entire media and the entire political discourse.<\/p>\n

JUAN GONZ\u00c1LEZ:<\/strong> And, David, meanwhile, six Democratic senators sent a letter to the chairman of the FCC, Brendan Carr, demanding that he conduct a rigorous and thorough review of Paramount\u2019s reliance on foreign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, almost \u2014 to pay for almost $110 billion to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. In the past, the federal government has really been strict about the limits of foreign ownership or investment in American media companies. What\u2019s happening here in terms of the foreign \u2014 foreign control regulations of the FCC?<\/p>\n

DAVID SIROTA:<\/strong> Yeah, I mean, it\u2019s a great question. There\u2019s reporting that says that the FCC may approve up to a 49-and-a-half percent ownership, or even ultimately up to 100% ownership, foreign ownership, of the new merged Paramount-Warner Bros. corporation, if the merger goes through. They\u2019re asking, essentially, the FCC to waive long-standing ownership laws. And to be clear, let\u2019s remember, Brendan Carr of the FCC wrote parts of the Project 2025 document, the document setting the agenda for Trump\u2019s second term, in which Carr said that he wanted to get rid of ownership caps.<\/p>\n

Now, obviously, this conflicts with the whole notion of America first that you hear Trump talking all about, where we are potentially going to have the largest or among the largest media conglomerates in the country \u2014 in the world, but operating in our country, affecting the democratic discourse, that is in part or up to potentially fully owned by foreign sovereign wealth funds, controlled in part by foreign governments. I mean, it kind of boggles the mind about what that means for our democracy, right? Because media corporations, as distinct from, you know, a corporation that just makes a physical product \u2014 media corporations have a disproportionate impact on the democratic \u2014 small-D democratic \u2014 and election discourse. Now, in the future, you may have a situation where foreign governments via sovereign wealth funds have a disproportionate power to affect the way we conduct our United States, American democracy.<\/p>\n

JUAN GONZ\u00c1LEZ:<\/strong> There\u2019s also a new report that James Murdoch has recently agreed to acquire New York<\/em> magazine and Vox Media Podcast Network in a deal valued at about $300 million. Talk about who James Murdoch is and his impact.<\/p>\n

DAVID SIROTA:<\/strong> Yeah, I mean, James Murdoch is \u2014 you know, he\u2019s part of the Murdoch family, but he has had kind of an ouster or a kind of conflict, reportedly, with Rupert Murdoch and with Lachlan Murdoch, and essentially left Rupert Murdoch\u2019s empire. And James Murdoch has been depicted as somebody with more moderate, Democratic-leaning politics. And now he is investing in sort of independent, somewhat independent media properties, and making a play for that. I mean, I think we will see what that means.<\/p>\n

My concern on that is somewhat less about James Murdoch\u2019s politics and more about the fact that digital media and podcast media have been some of the last remaining places where there really has been some vibrant independent, non-corporate media. And so, the concern would be: Is that going away? Is that space now going to be even more encroached by corporate, large corporate entities? But I do think the jury remains out on that. It\u2019s not clear how James Murdoch is going to run that company.<\/p>\n

AMY GOODMAN:<\/strong> Well, David Sirota, this is a conversation that continues, founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever<\/em>, author of The Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America<\/em>.<\/p>\n

David, I look forward to seeing you Saturday at the KGNU<\/em> benefit at the Sie Center, the cinema here in Denver. They\u2019re screening Steal This Story, Please!<\/em>, about Democracy Now!<\/em> and independent media. The fundraiser is at 4:30, I think, the film at 6:30 on Saturday night. And you can check that out at KGNU.org. But I\u2019m also thrilled to be going to the ribbon-cutting ceremony of KGNU<\/em>, a gem in the community radio network in this country. It\u2019s taking place in Boulder today at 1:00. It is moving into its own community and cultural center and resilience hub. And it is amazing to see, as we look at corporate media consolidating the growth of independent media. Also, Steal This Story, Please!<\/em> is playing in Denver at the Sie Center for the next week, and in Boulder at the Dairy cinema. We did a fundraiser for KGNU<\/em> there last night, and it will continue to play through the week. Just check out democracynow.org and also StealThisStory.org.<\/p>\n

Well, speaking about corporate power, coming up, Karen Hao, the author of Empire of AI<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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