Trump’s Settlement with CBS is Signals the End of An Era

There is a human tendency to dismiss one-offs. When people have a schema or set belief system, most individuals will find a way to rationalize or dismiss anecdotal data that may contradict what they think is true. Still, even the most ardent individual can only ignore so much information that does not conform to their perspective. The left has consistently tried to create an alternate reality since Trump arrived on the American political scene in 2016 by lying, gaslighting, and refusing to provide proper context for what the pathetic legacy press claims to be reporting.

Most of the corporate media made a decision when Trump won in 2016 that their job was to steer the American public away from the President and his MAGA movement. For nearly a decade now, nearly every supposed traditional news station, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and others, have spent every second Trump was in office attacking him with false and misleading talking points. This was true of the Russian hoax investigation, the false stories about Trump’s supposed comments about troops in Europe, and both sides in Charleston, or with the absurd claim that Trump directed people to inject bleach into their bodies during COVID. If the failing legacy media were telling the truth or reporting accurately on Trump on any story, this rare occurrence was surprising.

This is why Trump’s significant settlement with CBS, which includes a nearly $30 million dollar payout and the network making a commitment to change the company’s editorial story, is much bigger than this singular event. The President’s agreement with CBS comes just month after ABC was also forced to agree to pay Trump nearly 10 million for blatantly and consistently lying about Trump being a supposed rapist because of the civil judgment in the sham trial involved Jean Carroll last year. While some on the left are trying to do their usual gaslighting by suggesting that Trump is engaging in bullying the media, the truth, as usual, is the opposite of what these usual liars are claiming. The reality is that nearly the entire corporate media stopped reporting the news and engaged in an organized smear effort against Trump and the MAGA movement for nearly a decade. The failing legacy press attacked, lied about, and tried to destroy Trump and his supporters, simply because most people in this disgraced institution disagreed with these individuals’ political views.

If a public corporation with a broadcasting license wants to simply engaged in constant attacks on only one party, this is a not a news station, that entity is a political operation, and these institutions taking these actions have no business branding themselves as anything remotely close to a true media outlet. One of the reasons America is so fiercely divided today has been the constant nasty and pernicious smears against the President and his supporters by the pathetic legacy press. The media even tried to call Trump and the MAGA movement fascists and a threat to Democracy when he ran in 2024. This kind of reckless and disgusting rhetoric has not only contributed significantly to polarizing the nation, but this verbiage has also led to violence, as was seen with the two assassination attempts against Trump.

The once respected legacy press still has a place, albeit a smaller one, in the American media. There are still people, particularly older ones, who watch traditional media outlets. Trump is a billionaire; he is not interested in the financial settlements with these companies, but what the President is very focused in making sure America has a press that is actually attempting to report and discuss real news stories. The fact that CBS and 60 Minutes literally just became a propaganda network and program that edited and manipulated Kamala Harris’s pathetic attempt at an interview on the supposed news station shows how far the media had fallen and was willing to go to defeat the 47th President. Trump’s settlement with CBS and ABC sends a clear message to left-wing propaganda outlets with public broadcasting licenses: if these companies want to devote 24 hours a day to trying to manipulate and lie to the country, then the government will treat them as the politicized entities these entities are. The President’s significant settlement with CBS likely signals both the end of an era of media corporations becoming left-wing propaganda outlets and the beginning of these companies returning to showing a semblance of being actual news stations.