Former NPR CEO: “This was not a great week for freedom of expression.”
Vivian Schiller, former NPR CEO, criticized CBS’s cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s offer in an interview on Saturday amid a reaction to a decision that the network said was taken due to financial restrictions.
“This was not a great week for freedom of expression and talking about the truth in power, without a doubt.”
CBS was criticized for this step, which many have taken in the context of its decision earlier this month to settle a lawsuit filed by President Trump for $ 16 million. CBS, Paramount, is currently seeking to obtain federal approval for the integration deal with Skydance entertainment blocs.
Colbert moved CBS after that, describing the settlement as a “large fat bribery” in Monuju and pointed to efforts to merge Paramount. Paramount’s lawyers have previously described the lawsuit, which faces a problem in editing CBS to an interview with former Vice President Harris as “without a basis in law or truth.”
Schiller admitted on Saturday that the evidence about the cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” was “circumstantial”, but it is still called the “curious” step. The network confirmed that the decision was motivated by financial concerns.
“We must also note that Stephen Colib is not afraid, once again, to talk about the truth to power,” said former NPR. “He does this in a way of both parties over the years, comedy and satirical simulation is an important part of a democratic ecosystem.”
Schiller’s comments come after a difficult week for NPR, which is the Media Organization that has been leading it for three years. The Republicans voted on zero financing for the Public Broadcasting Company, a non -profit institution that provides a small segment of money for the national headquarters of NPR and a large part of the revenue for the broadcaster members stations.
Sheller told NPR’s media reporter this week that she believed that federal loss was inevitable, and that the network should have prepared itself better before voting by Congress.
She said: “Any evidence -based news organization is progressing in a critical way that will be accused of left -wing bias.” “The press and government financing in the United States – these two things are incompatible.”
Schiller came out of NPR in 2011 because of her own controversy over federal financing. The Republicans at the time were threatening to reduce the financing of the broadcaster when the video appeared from the prominent fundraising in the NPR donations in NPR attacking the tea activists.
The comments of the donation campaign, which made conservative activists protesting as potential donors, pushed anger at the Republican in Congress, and the NPR board of directors finally forced the out of the exit.
