Trump Administration Considers Pulling CBS Broadcasting License

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5. Echoes of Jesse Helms, Fairness In Media

Which was IIRC a plan to takeover CBS by buying up their stock and installing their own Board so they could "become Dan Rather's boss" and fire him.

Conservative playbook doesn't change much, except by degree.

And by the way, Trump was already suing CBS over the Harris interview, and now his head of FCC is sabre rattling against it. Does that fit the scenario for a shakedown? Or worse?

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-19-mn-8256-story.html

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I also recall this began the downslide of CBS which was eventually rescued by a 'white knight', a wealthy investor L. Tisch who saved the company from the takeover. I stopped following it but later it was sold to .. Viacom, then those two split, but it was basically owned by Sumner Redstone's companies at one point.