Editorial independence

Now, Bonta previously insisted that only structural remedies would do, but the settlement he agreed to contains no divestitures.

What it does contain is film output quotas, a production spending pledge, a worker fund, an editorial independence board for CBS News and CNN, and the states being reimbursed for their case costs of somewhere around $40 million.

Bonta says the exit threat played no role in the settlement.

The judge, meanwhile, said that on Thursday, and we're recording this on Saturday, that she is not a rubber stamp and hasn't approved it.

think he asked you there.

There are some some requirements on it in terms of I think it's supposed to be so many former journalists and so forth and all that.

But, yeah, news editorial independence board.

Yeah, it's again, there's a bit of irony of the government forcing a news editorial independence board.

We have also seen this movie.

We have seen the Paramount, Skydance, Ellison takeover of CBS News first, and we've seen what their view of editorial independence has meant, essentially a wholesale reorientation of the personnel and, as far as we can gather, the editor-in-chief's views on what editorial independence looks like.

And there's been a huge amount of criticism-

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