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🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The Trump administration’s scorched-earth media strategy has claimed new casualties at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, including Sony Film Chief Tom Rothman. Meanwhile, the president’s $20 billion lawsuit against Paramount Global continues to force Shari Redstone into what could be a legacy-defining moment. But how will the CBS News staff react to a settlement with Trump? Kim Masters and Matt Belloni investigate.
Plus, NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans chats with Bosch star Titus Welliver about his journey from supporting roles on police procedurals, to portraying detective Harry Bosch for a decade. He talks about his reaction when the spinoff series, Bosch: Legacy was abruptly cancelled after three seasons, and explains how he puts his executive producer credit to good use.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:05.8 | After 10 years playing tough cop-turned private detective Harry Bosch on Amazon, |
0:11.1 | Titus Welliver knows his character, |
0:13.2 | and he's not afraid to speak up when he felt creative decisions were taking a wrong turn. |
0:17.8 | I said to the guy, that's a very cool car, but Harry Bosch would never drive that car. |
0:22.5 | And of course, they looked at me like I was out of my mind. |
0:25.2 | And I said, this is a guy who doesn't want to be seen. |
0:29.2 | And that car draws too much attention. |
0:31.7 | Titus would love to drive that car around. |
0:33.9 | It's like a clarinet on wheels. |
0:35.4 | I mean, it's so sexy. Titus Welliver talks to Eric Diggins about his journey from supporting roles on police |
0:41.7 | procedural to portraying Bosch for a decade. He talks about his reaction when the spin-off |
0:47.2 | series, Bosch Legacy, was abruptly canceled after three seasons and explains how he puts |
0:52.7 | his executive producer credit to good use. |
0:55.6 | But first we banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:01.4 | I am joined by my partner in banter Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So the |
1:07.2 | administration's battle against public broadcasting, which ultimately touches KCRW, so we do have a ferret in that fight. |
1:16.6 | It has extended to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board. |
1:21.1 | Trump has fired the three Biden appointees, including one Tom Rothman of Sony Pictures. |
1:29.6 | Yeah, that's interesting because obviously that's a big media company. Trump has also been going after big media companies and extracting |
1:35.9 | settlements from them, and Tom Rothman did not appreciate being booted off a board that he was |
1:41.6 | doing as a charitable endeavor. And now he's at the center of this |
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