Domenico Montanaro

It's not just CBS, right?

I mean, we've seen the Trump administration go after a lot of these corporations or at least make these threats against corporations who own media companies.

And it's really the first time I can remember where so many of these organizations have kind of bent and haven't really stood up as strongly for their rights, for their

autonomy of their own content.

We've seen ABC settle lawsuits.

CBS also settled a different lawsuit.

And this is the kind of thing that I think a lot of journalists, a lot of content creators, artists, it's very concerning to them because they feel like that a lot of these

companies that they had worked for had their backs for a long time.

And now you're seeing this sort of bending the knee in some respects because of their own vested business interests, whether it's these mergers or acquisitions or even just being able to produce their content without having the threat of the government saying that they'll put them through expensive lawsuits.

Yeah.

And it's not really about fairness.

It seems to be about Trump and what he wants and what conservatives are looking at here.

are very nervous.

And people would be right to be confused because we have such a panoply of an a la carte sort of media consumption diet.

Not everybody's just listening to broadcast news anymore, right?

I mean, this is a totally different media landscape than our parents' or grandparents' landscape.

And a lot of people are just watching on YouTube, just ask my kids, right?

And Tallarico,

really benefited actually from this controversy, was able to not only rack up views for Colbert's clip on YouTube, but raised millions of dollars in a really competitive primary.

Yeah, and we're in an attention economy, and he certainly was able to get the attention on that.