Talk World Radio: Jeff Cohen on Colbert and the Corporate Media

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This week on Talk World Radio we’re talking about Paramount cancelling Stephen Colbert’s show, and the corporate media cartel generally bowing to Trump. Our guest, media critic Jeff Cohen was founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, where he was an associate professor of journalism. He founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986, and cofounded the online activist group RootsAction.org in 2011. His recent column is called “Colbert’s Termination Is a Corporate Assault on Dissent and a Victory for Trump,” and RootsAction has a petition to media owners telling them to stop paying Trump’s bribes.

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https://rootsaction.org/news-a-views/3707-colberts-termination-is-a-corporate-assault-on-dissent-and-a-victory-for-trump-

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https://rootsaction.org/protest-colbert-cancellation-big-medias-complicity

Total run time: 29:00
Host: David Swanson.
Producer: David Swanson.
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Correction: While serious legal experts have stated that Trump’s suit over CBS 60 Minutes’ editing of a Kamala Harris interview had no chance of success, the suit was not alleging defamation but that CBS had violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act.