Interview 1981 – Clown World Gets Even Clownier (NWNW #606)
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🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corbett of Corbett Report.com. |
| 0:18.3 | And I am James Evan Palado of Mediamonarchy.com. You can talk about anything other than a couple of things. |
| 0:24.5 | We have got that story, plus whether or not to halt genetic interventions in conservation. |
| 0:30.2 | But our first of three cozy gatherings this week, we begin with this billionaire Trump ally and his son are building an unprecedented media empire. |
| 0:41.0 | Journalists at CBS Newsreeled as they digested news reports that opinion journalists very wise, |
| 0:47.2 | a fierce critic of the mainstream media, would become the editor-in-chief of the straight-laced |
| 0:52.2 | legacy brand. Two months earlier, there had been cautious optimism in Midtown Manhattan Newsroom, |
| 0:57.8 | according to two CBS News staffers who spoke that you don't tell that we told you all this stuff. |
| 1:03.2 | Movie producer, David Ellison, son of billionaire software Zionist Larry Ellison, |
| 1:10.0 | dropped by to introduce himself as the new chief executive of Paramount Skydance, |
| 1:14.6 | the company that now owns CBS after an $8 billion merger that promised new investment. |
| 1:21.0 | And again, James, this is very similar to the insider, |
| 1:25.7 | where the story of 60 Minutes and the cigarettes company and the tobacco executives |
| 1:30.8 | trying to get the merger, it's going to scuttle all that, it's really similar to that, |
| 1:36.2 | as of course art imitates life, imitates politics. But the newsroom hasn't heard directly from |
| 1:41.2 | Ellison since that day, leaving many apprehensive about plans for |
| 1:44.9 | the network, the two leakers said. The anxiety's been reinforced in recent weeks, as details of |
| 1:50.6 | Weiss's likely higher and Paramount Skydance's $150 million acquisition of her online publication, |
| 1:58.0 | the free press, nice work if you can get it, leaked in media outlets ahead |
| 2:02.2 | of internal confirmation, the deal and new role for Rice, Vice, Weiss, are the latest moves by |
| 2:09.0 | David Ellison as he builds a media empire alongside his Silicon Valley tycoon father through |
| 2:14.7 | pivotal deals negotiated and or approved by President Donald Trump and his |
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