Hey, John here. I hope you all are doing well. We are churning ahead towards season eight.

It's a big job. Still months off, but it is coming. I'm here to drop in an episode from one more show that I think lots of you would like to know about if you don't know about it already.

The show is from the independent, nonpartisan investigative news outlet, the lever,

and it's called lever time.

Lever time comes out a couple times a week and is often responding to current events

more than seen on radio usually does, but it does so with the kind of critical lens

that I think will feel familiar to our listeners. And by the way, I'm going to drop a strong

hint here about our next season. In season eight, we're going to take on a theme broadly similar

to that of this episode, exploring, uh, media. In this episode from Levertime,

why did CBS cancel Stephen Colbert's show just days after the company settled a lawsuit with

Donald Trump? How is Trump using lawsuits against media companies to crush dissent?

And which other billionaires, corporations, and politicians are trying to bully their critics into silence?

Here's that fresh episode of Lever Time with host David Sorota.

The Lever

Subscribers supported journalism that holds... Lever Time with host David Sorota. The Lever.

Subscriber-supported journalism that holds power accountable.

From the Lever's reader-supported newsroom, this is Lever Time.

I'm David Seroda.

By now, you've probably heard the news that CBS's late show with Stephen Colbert was canceled. Maybe you were bummed out that you'd find fewer laughs on network TV.

But to many, it seems as if the show's termination is about something much more serious,

another successful effort by Donald Trump to crush dissent and send a message that those who speak

out will face consequences. Today on Levertime, I talk to the author of the new book Murder the

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