Oliver Darcy

They're saying they can't get the deal done.

We can get the deal done because Donald Trump likes us.

And so, obviously, Donald Trump does not care about what Paramount puts on Paramount+.

He's not watching Landman or Yellowstone.

He's watching CBS News in 60 minutes.

And they don't want to rock that boat too much.

And so, I think you're seeing Barry Weiss...

try to avoid landmines and has steering this network obviously in a more in more maga friendly waters i don't think she's outright maga but i certainly think she's she's uh you know not throwing the fastballs that uh others would throw in her position

i think that i think that what's alarming is if you look around at the media landscape right now it's very much controlled by billionaires who are bending the need to donald trump right if you look at all the major you know whether what happened at disney with jimmy kimmel you see that situation playing out you see obviously what's happening at cbs right now jeff bezos with the washington post patrickson xiang with the los angeles times like down the list it goes

You see billionaires and corporations capitulating to the president.

And what's really sad about it is that if you think about the people who are supposed to safeguard society and push back against the authoritarians, it's...

the most powerful people, right?

These are the people who also portrayed themselves as like, we stand up for democracy back in 2016 and like we have fact checking and we're gonna hold this administration accountable.

It shouldn't be the average Joe on the street who's like taking up his Saturday while working double duty shifts to protest some of these actions.

It should be the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world or the Jeff Bezos, the people who have unlimited money, who have amassed so much power and who are obviously collectively much stronger, I think, than the person in the Oval Office.

Instead, you've seen them being the most selfish and do everything they can to safeguard their own wallets.

And I think that's what's really alarming is like you would never think that sort of thing would happen in America, I guess.

You would think that these like

powerful men would show some backbone.

And at the end of the day, they're not the ones doing anything.