Paramount Gets What it Deserves
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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Once upon a time, there was a great television network. In the 1960’s, Walter Cronkite made it the most respected news network in America. It was the network where we watched I Love Lucy, Mash, All in the Family, The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, the Ed Sullivan Show, The Carol Burnett Show, and many, many others. On September 24, 1968, It launched a new news show, calling it “60 Minutes.” In just a few years, it became known as the best, fact-based, and “hard-hitting” news broadcast on television. On October 6, 2025, the parent company of CBS, Paramount, hired a Trump sycophant, Bari Weiss, as the network’s news director. One of Ms. Weiss’ orders was to cancel the highly rated late night talk-show, “The Late Show with Stephen Colbet. Trump cannot handle the truth. I, and many others immediately cancelled our subscriptions to the Paramount streaming service. Today, ratings for 60 Minutes and other broadcasts are in steep decline. All of this happened ...