“No One Is Happy About It.” CBS Staffers Were Tired of the Paramount Drama, but the Settlement Intensifies Media-Capitulation Concerns
“Enough is enough.” That was the sentiment from inside CBS, one staffer told Vanity Fair, as Paramount reached a settlement agreement on Tuesday with the Trump administration—a move broadly criticized as capitulation. Inside the news institution, which has been rattled by the drawn-out legal saga, executive departures, and claims of editorial interference, all in the context of a looming sale to Skydance, people are ready to move on. Meanwhile, Senator Elizabeth Warren plans to drag the fight to Congress, calling for an investigation into the settlement. “It’s been something that has lasted so long as a trauma,” added the source.
And yet, according to this source, “The general sense is no one is happy about it.”
In a near midnight agreement on Tuesday, Paramount settled the defamation lawsuit launched over the editing of a preelection interview on...