{"id":40986,"date":"2025-07-11T10:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/why-is-the-media-paying-millions-to-trump-podcast-7\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:04:43","slug":"why-is-the-media-paying-millions-to-trump-podcast-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/why-is-the-media-paying-millions-to-trump-podcast-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the media paying millions to Trump? \u2013 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, settled a lawsuit filed against it by Donald Trump for $16m last week. It came after Disney and Meta settled lawsuits with the president in similar ways. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian US columnist Margaret Sullivan about why these companies are caving to Trump\u2019s demands, and whether critics are right to be worried about what this means for the future of a free press<\/p>\n

Archive: CBS News, PBS, NBC News, WHAS11, CNN, Fox 5 New York<\/em><\/p>\n

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Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, settled a lawsuit filed against it by Donald Trump for $16m last week. It came after Disney and Meta settled lawsuits with the president in similar ways. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian US columnist Margaret Sullivan about why these companies are caving to Trump\u2019s demands, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}