Dan Rather on Paramount’s $16 Million Trump Settlement: ‘It Was a Sell-Out to Extortion by the President’ (EXCLUSIVE) – Variety

Jul 2, 2025 7:11pm PT

Dan Rather on Paramount’s $16 Million Trump Settlement: ‘It Was a Sell-Out to Extortion by the President’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Legendary former CBS News anchor Dan Rather expressed disappointment Wednesday at Paramount Global‘s decision to pay $16 million to the Trump administration and settle its lawsuit over a “60 Minutes” report.

“It’s a sad day for journalism,” Rather told Variety. “It’s a sad day for ’60 Minutes’ and CBS News. I hope people will read the details of this and understand what it was. It was distortion by the President and a kneeling down and saying, ‘yes, sir,’ by billionaire corporate owners.

Read more: Dan Rather on Paramount’s $16 Million Trump Settlement: ‘It Was a Sell-Out to Extortion by the President’ (EXCLUSIVE) – VarietySource Links: Dan Rather on Paramount’s Trump Suit Settlement: ‘It Was a Sell-Out’

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Broadcasting icon #DanRather went NUCLEAR on Donald Trump and #CBS/Paramount for their roles in the latest White House media scandal! Learn what Rather's describing as, ''Extortion by the President," and hear the alarm he sounded! youtu.be/5qRWVoFuOWU?...

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Dan Rather on Paramount’s $16 Million Trump Settlement: ‘It Was a Sell-Out to Extortion by the President’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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Dan Rather on Paramount’s $16 Million Trump Settlement: ‘It Was a Sell-Out to Extortion by the President’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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CHEAP TRICK Look Back On Their Formative Years In AXS TV Interview With DAN RATHER

https://bravewords.com/news/cheap-trick-look-back-on-their-formative-years-in-axs-tv-interview-with-dan-rather/

#CheapTrick #DanRather #AXSTV #RickNielsen #GibsonKorina #FlyingV #AndyWarhol #Oklahoma #LarryBriggs #TheCollection

#DanRather’s newsletter on the hideous R #reconciliation bill today is worth a read in its entirety, but this paragraph in particular struck me. #USpol

“We can’t even speak of compassion — it is a concept #Trump does not comprehend. Today’s bill proves that his contempt for those who have less is endless. He isn’t content to let laws that help the poor stand. He feels the need to go after programs that are, in some cases, the difference between life and death.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/steady/p/shameful

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ROBERT PLANT Reflects On The Early Days Of LED ZEPPELIN – “The Last Thing We Were Was A Good Bet To Have On A Talk Show”; Video

https://bravewords.com/news/robert-plant-reflects-on-the-early-days-of-led-zeppelin-the-last-thing-we-were-was-a-good-bet-to-have-on-a-talk-show-video/

#RobertPlant #LedZeppelin #DanRather #AXSTV #SavingGrace #SuziDian #SpringFeverTour #Vilnius #Lucca #Barcelona

“If there were a playbook for how to be an authoritarian leader, one of the first rules would be that you don’t want an educated electorate or functioning members of society.” #DanRather #Education #Politics

https://open.substack.com/pub/steady/p/how-to-control-the-electorate-101?r=1ptb1p&utm_medium=ios

@georgetakei
Cool!
I heard a somewhat different version which goes: "When an ox enters a palace, he does not become a king, but the palace becomes a stable."
(Öküz saraya çıkınca kral olmaz ama saray ahır olur.)

It would be cool to hear from native Turkish speakers about this.

#DonaldTrump #DanRather #Turkish #proverb #MAGA

“They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.”👇 #Trump #Politics #Agenda #Strategy #Power #DanRather

Trump’s Hidden Agenda

This is a big deal…
#journalism #freePress
#dictatorship

https://open.substack.com/pub/steady/p/the-truth-dies-with-him?r=onbw7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#danRather #steady

😊 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michell... #DanRather #PoliticalAnalysis #Leadership #Boston #BostonPops #MichelleWu #Music #Gershwin #SteadySubstack

More Than a Mayor

#danrather #Censorship #politics #60minutes #cbs

“…Legacy media, this nation’s bedrock for reliable reporting in my lifetime, is quickly going the way of the dodo … extinct. Witness none other than CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” the most popular television newsmagazine of all time, threatened by the sitting president…”

https://open.substack.com/pub/steady/p/heartbreak-for-cbs-news?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios

Dan Rather on the impact of media companies settling with Trump #DanRather #Media #Lawsuits #Trump #CBSNews

Heartbreak for CBS News

Artists seem to always be 15 years ahead of everyone else. Neil is 50 years ahead.

Neil Young Talks About How the Media Divides the U.S.

Neil Young talks to Dan Rather about how the media pins the political parties against each other and how big corporations have been able to pull the strings in the U.S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYYDtLdz1_c

#USPol #Music #NeilYoung #DanRather

it's really that simple.
#DanRather

#DanRather thinks maybe #WaPo has become a problem, rather than exposing them through good journalism. The billionaire owner now wants to curry favor with the would-be dictator-elect.

Rather knows we need a new journalism model in a time of authoritarianism and oligarchy.

https://open.substack.com/pub/steady/p/take-this-billionaire-please?r=1w2pos&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Take This Billionaire, Please

#DanRather
#TeamSteady

https://steady.substack.com/p/take-this-billionaire-please?publication_id=247881&post_id=154304345&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=fu2o2&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

It’s way beyond politics.
And there was a time when news was actually news, too.
#DanRather #news

@GottaLaff

"A Dancing Dick Van Dyke"

by Dan Rather

"On Friday, Van Dyke’s [99th] birthday, the British rock band Coldplay released a video for their new single “All My Love” as a birthday gift to Van Dyke. Oh, and the song and dance man stars in the video, which is this week’s reason to smile."

https://steady.substack.com/p/a-dancing-dick-van-dyke?publication_id=247881&post_id=153142576&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=br4h&triedRedirect=true

#DickVanDyke #AllMyLove #OldAge #DanRather