Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Sunday that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is “not over” because Iran still has nuclear material that “has to be taken out” of the country. In a “60 Minutes” interview broadcast by CBS News on Sunday evening, Netanyahu said that the war on Iran has not ended because Iran still has enriched uranium that must be “taken out…
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Workers within CBS News’s online streaming division began a 24-hour bicoastal walkout on Tuesday, one week after their contract with the company expired. The workers, who provide content for CBS News 24/7, are represented by the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE). The union alleges that management’s offers to renegotiate the contract are unacceptable, featuring terms worse than those…
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Following an increased re-bid from Paramount Skydance to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery, the online streaming service company Netflix has bowed out of the running. The decision, made on Thursday, means that Paramount Skydance will likely be approved for the purchase of the company, whose portfolio includes the news organization CNN. In a joint statement, Netflix co-chief executives Ted…
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CBS’s “Evening News” program lost over a million viewers in its first week under its new anchor, Tony Dokoupil, compared to the same period last year, marking a sharp loss for the network after the network’s billionaire owners installed far right provocateur Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief in October. Data from media audience measurement firm Nielsen shows that the show lost nearly a quarter of…
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CBS News has fired most of its climate crisis production staff as part of the company’s dozens of news staff layoffs last week. The decision to lay off the climate desk comes after Paramount, parent company for CBS News, merged with Skydance. Following the merger, David Ellison, a pro-Trump billionaire, became chief executive of the new Paramount Skydance company…
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